The Spelling Reform, Tema 8U.S. Government Printing Office, 1893 - 86 páginas |
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Página 15 - ... if our spelling followed the pronunciation of words, it would in reality be of greater help to the critical student of language than the present uncertain and unscientific mode of writing.
Página 18 - An ideal alphabet would seek to adopt for its characters forms which should suggest the sounds signified, and of which the resemblances should in some measure represent the similarities of the sounds.
Página 36 - The main difficulty of reading English arises from the intrinsic irregularity of the English language. A confusion of ideas sets in in the mind of the child respecting the powers of the letters, which is very slowly and very painfully...
Página 14 - English, and we shal hav a total of millions of years wasted by each generation. The cost of printing the silent letters of the English language is to be counted by millions of dollars for each generation.
Página 17 - Latin and other languages written in Roman letters, in the use of a single sign for a short vowel and its long, distinguishing them, when great exactness is required, by a diacritical mark. The alphabet would then have thirty two letters.
Página 47 - The spelling of geographic names that require transliteration into Roman characters should represent the principal sounds of the word as pronounced in the native tongue, in accordance with the sounds of the letters in the following system. An approximation only to the true sound is aimed at in this system. The vowels are to be pronounced as in Italian and on the Continent of Europe generally, and the consonants as in English: a has the sound of a in father.
Página 18 - ... representing single consonants may be named and otherwise treated as single letters. 3. New letters can be easiest introduced by using them only for the old letters which they resemble in form. . 4. Long words bear changes best, and vowels are more easily changed than consonants, which project more above and below the line. Dropping final silent e is the easiest change.
Página 44 - ... to appoint a commission to examine and report how far such a reform is desirable, and what amendments in orthography, if any, may be wisely introduced into the public documents and the schools of the District of Columbia, and accepted in examinations for the civil service, and whether it is expedient to move the government of Great Britain to unite in constituting a joint commission to consider such amendments.
Página 36 - It is certain that the ear is no guide in the spelling of English — rather the reverse — and that it is almost necessary to form a personal acquaintance with each individual word.
Página 54 - In 1876, the National Union of Elementary Teachers, representing some 10,000 teachers in England and Wales, passed almost unanimously a resolution in favor of a Royal Commission to inquire into the subject of English spelling, with a view to reforming and simplifying it. The school board for London took up the matter, and issued a circular asking others to unite in an address to the education department in favor of it. The Liverpool and Bradford boards had acted before, and more than a hundred other...