SIMPLIFIED SPELLING.
EXPERIMENTS SANCTIONED IN 1 ENGLAND.
At the meeting of the Simplified Spelling Society at University College recently, Professor Walter Ripman said the sanction of the Board of Education had been received for making experiments in the schools in simplified spelling. It was necessary to have a coddof spelling which would represent not dDlecls. but standard speech of the whole , English-speaking race. It was hoped that the American Governmentcould be brought to co-operate with the British Government in bringing this; about. Ope teacher, where an experiment in the simplified spelling- Is being made, raid that learning to readf li'n the - simi plified form was a--much happier--ex-perience for a child than under - the old method. A number of the pupils, of an average age of six years, gave a demonstration of wo’’d-building by the simplified method. All of them would read with facility both in the old and the new form.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 73, 27 March 1919, Page 3
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