Show If R J. J Boston Mass thinks that every letter has but one one- sound and every sound one letter in the English spelling L of words as spelled today we would i call his attention to the following following article article j that was handed to us on the Possibilities Possibilities IIo if of the Language J An enterprising spirit recently amused i himself by demonstrating some of the J possibilities of English pronunciation t when applied to names The inspirational inspirational t cause of this energy was the re reception reception rei re- re of his name which was Turner i by the general public He became becam disT disgusted disgusted dist dis dis- t T gusted because no one ever noticed it iton iton on the register and so worked out an original ri inal plan to attract attention This y IS is it i Traveling with a friend to the same sames samer r s destination the two put up a the same samei i hotel Here Turner registered as EK EK E E. E K K I try Say T. T queried the friend what R are you doing wi with th such a foreign name 1 Are you in trouble j Why no was the reply i not a foreign name it is correct English English English Eng Eng- lish and is pronounced Turner plainly too C- C Well Id I'd like to know just how you get Turner out of those thirteen letters it The word looks m more like Russian Hussian to tome tome tome me than anything else just it Formerly no one ever bothered about my nationality now everybody keeps guessing at it and andon andon on all sides I hear people discussing me Let me explain zt z represents ts k the sound of t t in olo the sound of ur Cur i in colonel is the sound of n en in gnat z is the sound of let er erin letin ij in myrrh I guess that spells Turner and if it doesn't then Id I'd like to know what it does spell This example is one of the best to demonstrate the excellences and superiority superiority of the Scientific Alphabet used by bythe bythe I. I the Standard Dictionary to indicate pro pro- By this system the of is represented by t t the the olo of colonel by J ur ur the gnot ot- ot gnat by n n and the of myrrh by er This shows shows' the identical letters letters letters let let- contained in the name used to convey convey convey con con- vey t their sounds Ex 1 |