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•REVISION ADVOCATED TO SAVE TIME AND LABOUR Philadelphia, November 28. Professor Godfrey Dewey, of Harvard University, addressing the English Language Congress, advocated the revision of the alphabet to a system of twenty-four consonants, thirteen vowels, and four diphthongs, and a symbol for the word “the." He declared that this scheme would save 1,000,000 dollars yearly, and explained that, with the new alphabet, fewer symbols would be needed to express thought. Millions of tons less of paper would be necessary, and books and newspapers would be smaller and lighter with the consequent saving in time and labour. Professor Dewey declared that the greatest problem in printed English to-day was typographical.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 56, 30 November 1926, Page 9
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111ENGLISH ALPHABET Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 56, 30 November 1926, Page 9
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