A Plea for Spelling Reform (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from A Plea for Spelling Reform The linguistic student will not need to be told that our language possesses the most anomalous orthography of any of the languages using the Roman alphabet. To see Roman letters applied to express sound with something like systematic regularity, one must look to the Welsh, the Spanish, the Italian, the German, and other languages; but the English can hardly be named in the same breath even as the French, with all the silent consonants of the latter, and its exceptions to general rules. The irregular character of our orthography is doubtless due to various causes. The discrepancies in spelling exhibited by Anglo-Saxon manuscripts appear to show that Roman letters were originally applied in a rough-and-ready fashion to express the sounds of our ancestral tongue. After the Norman conquest there was an infusion of French words with a different system of orthography; and later on Latin and Greek derivatives were largely brought in, without any care to adapt them to a vernacular system of spelling; while in later days all sorts of foreign intruders have been received, without requiring them to change their original dress. Amid this confusion of elements in the language, all attempts at a regular scientific representation of sound by letters appear to have been abandoned. It was enough that a word had a fixed orthography in Roman characters, and that it should acquire some vernacular pronunciation, more or less connected with its spelling. The result is that, with us, most letters represent various sounds, and most sounds are variously represented by letters. English Vowels. The first thing that strikes a foreigner, or a native-born intelligent child, in learning to read English, is the want of correspondence between what we call the short and the long sounds of our vowels, as in bad and bade, met and mete, fin and fine, con and cone, duck and duke. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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