PHONETIC SPELLING.
Sir,—Mr. ' George Clarke lias written a very interesting article on "Pirenetic Spelling; Its Disadvantages." He fears that the great body of English literature would bs lost to readers of the future if spelling became phonetic. He seems to overlook two facts:—(l) That the plays of Shakespeare,' for instance, are now published in Twentieth Century reformed spelling, to make them intelligible to ordinary Twentieth Century readers; (2) that any student, of this present age, who desires to study Shakespeare in the form in which the plays were first printed, has ample pppqrtunity to do so. The reasonable inference from these facts is this: That .the ordinary reader of the next century will have his demand for English literature met by the publication of our classics in phonetic spelling, and also that any student of that period who desires to -study English literature in early Twentieth Century spelling will have his particular demand satisfied. ' ■ _ ; ::'■■' P. S.JSMArMTELD.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18685, 15 April 1924, Page 7
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