The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1914. "SIMPLIFIED SPELING."

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 April 1914, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1914. "SIMPLIFIED SPELING."

Hie Chronicle Juts received from "Tile Simplified S})elii]g Soeieti," oj Loudon, a iengiliy article written by Professor Walter Rippman, ALA., ehici' inspector ol' TJie University of London. .flie article is interesting, and some eiicctive •arguments lor "improvement" of spelling are advanced therein. Probably we shall print it in future issues of The Chronicle: but serially, not allopatlucally. Our own opinion remains unaltered, as to the general advantages of the present system of spelling (we speak of the spelling book system, not the latter-day linotype method ol' clipped diphthongs and transposed letters) hut "that" fact docs not preclude us from giving publicity to the other side of tho case. The article by I'rofessor Ivipptnau (we note, by the way, that lie has not simplified the spelling of his own name!) is covered by a leiior from Mr Sydney Walton, secretary of * "The Simplified Speling Societi/' From il we note that Lord Hryce, at the Conference of Educational Societies held at the London University recently said: "I i' one considered it' merely as a business proposition, a reform of the spelling would be worth a vast deal to British trade. English, was beginning to be a language of commerce and Japanese friends had deplored to him the difficult ies wbich English spelling threw in the- way of t heir elVorls to spread the language." The appeal to commercialism as couched above will win recruits: but (here are better standards than commercialism by which to gauge the merits of history and other matters that are embalmed in correct etymology. However, the potion works, and we hear from Mr Walton that "there can be no doubt that before long a representative gathering of scholars from all parts of the English-speaking world will discuss the <|iiestion of a standard speech of English. Tn the meanwhile The Chronicle will retain its predilection for tho olden spelling and the philological lessons and comparative illustrations of olden progress that it conveys. Also, as far as our linotype restrictions will allow us, we shall illustrate our predilection daily and type-facedly in these pages.