Show OUR MUCH ABUSED LANGUAGE americans notorious the world over for their faulty articulation reform Is needed that a reform in our habits of speech is elizar lias has long been conc conceded edd by the more intelligent per der son americans are notorious noton oui the world ON oer er toi foi their fault articulation and this unwise econom of ocal energy has not only disfigured our language to the ear but has also agn gnon on aid and comfort to the so called ref aimers of our spelling it if the word mord program tor for instance is 13 repeatedly heard as program or program with strong accent on the first sil sellable lable and almost no vowel sound in the second it Is asked should it not be written as it is pro bounced noun ced no wonder nonder that our coun try takes the rid in spelling rp re form having haning so effectually divorced the spoken from ohp th written language strange and startling are arc the tricks that mispronunciation plays plas with mith spelling Limonta bli common is if 1 to meet with mith the expression A would of or would mould hac in the corre ot of the careless in speech tho the new ill hat bit b it puniner un il use of will tor for shill shall and of would mould tor for khouli is probably due to the freite fc reite ease of saying saing I 1 will mill or ill VL v 1 will ill or well I 1 would mould or I 1 id d w d thin or of articulating I 1 a shall hall I 1 should etc thus the evil results ot of slovenly ut terance she show themselves in grammar as well mell as in spelling and the stately structure ot of our ancestral tongue Is slowly but surely yielding i elding to the the in in silious assaults of carelessness abu abuso so c indolence mistaken zeal in efforts at reform and other influences |