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Evening Star, Issue 19327, 13 August 1926, Page 11

Simplified spelling is evidently making progress in America. At a recent meeting of the Simplified Spelling Board at the Men’s Faculty Club of Columbia University, it was announced that already nearly 600 American newspapers have adopted six of the 30,000 words which iho board would like to seo respelt. Tho first six arc “ tho, thro, thru, program, catalog, and pedagog.” With their compounds and derivations, however, it is possible to claim that simplified spelling has triumphed in tho ease of twentj-fom words. Tho board’s system is to assign one spelling to one sound, it was stated. As things are at present, it is possible (according to the board) to spell tho word “foolish” in 613,975 different ways. “ Pphoughthapsh ” is one of them, this merry quip being constructed bv taking parts of the word from “ sapphire, through, hustle, marriage, and pshaw.”