"SIMPLIFIED SPELLING."
The Simplified Spelling Board, in New York, rejoicing in Government support, has issued a third atrocious list of clipped words which will hence forth be used in American official documents and taught to young Americans. This list includes general rules covering four classes of words. 1. Cmit the A in words having EA pronounced as short E, as in "hed," "sted," "helth," "relm." Omit the E in words having EA pronounced as A before R, such as "harken, ' "hart," "harth." 2. Omit the E in preterites and participles ending in ED, but pronounced D, with the E silent, as in "armd," "burnd," "raind," "compeld," "repeald." This simplification is parallel to that already adapted in forma like "dropt" and "dript." 3. In words ending in the unstressed suffix "ice," pronounced "is," the C is changed to S and the E is omitted, as in "eornis," "crevis," and "lattis," "notis," "servis," "artifis,' etc. 4. In words ending in "lve"' or "rve." with the E silent, the E should be omitted, as in' "delv," "twelv," "solv," "reslov," "carv," "serv," "reserv," etc.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3141, 19 March 1909, Page 4
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180"SIMPLIFIED SPELLING." Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3141, 19 March 1909, Page 4
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