Download ebook Ninth Annual Address of the President to the Philological Society
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Author: U S Government
Page Count: 24 pages
Published Date: 22 Jan 2013
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
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ISBN: 9781234395377
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ...regular and phonetic. The philologists have concurred in this feeling, and an Association has been formed to devise a satisfactory spelling with an extended alphabet, as well as to suggest such partial changes in the right direction as may be immediately put in practice. Several of the State Legislatures have taken the matter up, and it does not require much prescience to see that, whether England does so or not, the Americans will ere long adopt an amended spelling. And as the United States will possess before the end of this century a population of one hundred millions, and be the centre of gravity of the English-speaking world, it is clear that their action in this matter is big with issues for the English of the future. But England is stirring, in a slow, lumberly, and timorous fashion. Here also the matter has become a practical one in connexion with education, and the waste of national resources incurred in the attempt to make child after child commit to memory the 20,000 contradictory facts of our present spelling. You are aware of the memorial presented to the Education Department by 130 School Boards praying for a Royal Commission in the matter, of the action of the Social Science Association in passing resolutions in favour of reformation, and in especial of the use of an alternative spelling for the purposes of instruction, of the formation of a Spelling Reform Association to advance the movement. The Association has recently made a collection of proposed schemes of Spelling Reform, as a first step, it may be presumed, towards uniting suffrages, if possible, in favour of that which seems most practicable. My own opinion is that, at present and for a long time to come, until indeed the general principles of phonology are...
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Ninth Annual Address of the President to the Philological Society by U S Government
Author: U S Government
Page Count: 24 pages
Published Date: 22 Jan 2013
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: Englishhttps://d20eq91zdmkqd.cloudfront.net/assets/images/book/large/9781/3423/9781342391759.jpg
ISBN: 9781234395377
File Name: Ninth.Annual.Address.of.the.President.to.the.Philological.Society.pdf
Download Link: Ninth Annual Address of the President to the Philological Society
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ...regular and phonetic. The philologists have concurred in this feeling, and an Association has been formed to devise a satisfactory spelling with an extended alphabet, as well as to suggest such partial changes in the right direction as may be immediately put in practice. Several of the State Legislatures have taken the matter up, and it does not require much prescience to see that, whether England does so or not, the Americans will ere long adopt an amended spelling. And as the United States will possess before the end of this century a population of one hundred millions, and be the centre of gravity of the English-speaking world, it is clear that their action in this matter is big with issues for the English of the future. But England is stirring, in a slow, lumberly, and timorous fashion. Here also the matter has become a practical one in connexion with education, and the waste of national resources incurred in the attempt to make child after child commit to memory the 20,000 contradictory facts of our present spelling. You are aware of the memorial presented to the Education Department by 130 School Boards praying for a Royal Commission in the matter, of the action of the Social Science Association in passing resolutions in favour of reformation, and in especial of the use of an alternative spelling for the purposes of instruction, of the formation of a Spelling Reform Association to advance the movement. The Association has recently made a collection of proposed schemes of Spelling Reform, as a first step, it may be presumed, towards uniting suffrages, if possible, in favour of that which seems most practicable. My own opinion is that, at present and for a long time to come, until indeed the general principles of phonology are...
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