THE NEW ORTHOGRAPHY

New Zealand Tablet, 20 December 1906, Page 37

THE NEW ORTHOGRAPHY

. --In. the course of some amusing remarks 'on, the -ques-~ „i ? n ., of - spelling reform, a critic in the London ' Daily Daily: -Chronicle ' observes that •'_ phonetic spellin-g will doubtless be welcoiued by -many, fdlfr, who; .though fairly well educated share the/failing of Macaulay, who "st>el- . led .'like a washerwoman."'' In arv' note -to -the- plirase . O.K. oopon de_ soobject,' Leland,;the American humar- - _■ ist, wrote : « -l n 1835, - 1 - heard, it- said -that . General „ Jackson in/ a -letter spelt- all correct i-',oll .korrekt " >; r3 and this.. l; believe to- be' the- real- 01-iiin'of the ~'ex- ' . passion v * The passage has a special interest at the . .present , moment ; for it would- seem- to show i-hat in i his bold -efforts- : to est»bllßh/a », more* ratioiTal. and pho-(.^netic-spelling-PresKlent Rop-se^elt is v foHowihg-, iir- '4© -. foobsteag : ef- one of his most jlJusfcrAous.. predecessors in - 4he Presidenibial,,OhaO:. But with the 'proposed destructhe. old orthography, will the world always be oT'^oU' korSkt Vi ' nn ' inS a " etymol °Sy' even as iTelandiives