SPELLING REFORM

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 70, 24 March 1914, Page 6

SPELLING REFORM

Now and again the question of spelling reform comes up afresh, but nothing-much ever seems to result Ev J en: i . the advocacy of such notabilities as ex-President Roosevelt and' Mr Carnegie does not seem to iieip it along. At a- meeting of the Council of Education in Melbourne, Dr A. Leeper .moved that the Board ,ot Education in England be urged to Bumirion a conference, iacludinorepresentatives of the Oversea"! ■Dominions,--to consider the question ot a uniform spelling throughout the Jkrnpire and English-speaking world, lhere was an interesting discussion before the motion. was' eventual]v earned. Professor Berry, m supporting the motion, quoted the following 'American" sentence, - .which he defied anyone present to understand:— "It seems that about four years ago-Scranton Red, a notorious yegg, had at framed up to kick in a flour and feed Pete up Yonkers way." We had the making of a fine phonetic system, he added, and something ought to be done. At the same time he was against any such rubbish as changing a word like "society"' into societi," which he had read of.