VERRY CYUERIUS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 13 July 1912, Page 9

VERRY CYUERIUS.

Sir William Ramsay has an article on the nyu speling in the Women Teachers' World, from which the following extract is made:—

Our speling haz been inherited from our forfaatherz. It. iz in meny instansez rong. It iz in aul instansez unsurtain, for it iz no les dificult to remember that a wurd iz spelt consistently than tv remember a grotesc speling. Whi dv we not aulter it?

Furst, I thine, becoz fyu peepl hay considerd the mater, and the very strong argyments in faivor of an aulteraishon.

Secund, on account ova cyuerius tendensy in hyueman naityur: we taic pried in whot we hay lurnd with dificulty, eeven tho it be cwiet yuesles.

Thurd, becoz it iz supozed that if aultered, our speling wil cees tv bee yueniform.