THE ADVANTAJIZ AND DISADVANTAJIZ.

Otago Witness, Issue 2771, 24 April 1907, Page 78

THE ADVANTAJIZ AND DISADVANTAJIZ.

Although many poured ridicule upon President Roosevelt's attempt to introduce a informed spelling, that will not stop a reform from taking place. In Victoria, programme is to be spelled program, parlour parlor, ar.d so on ; and the State Inspector-general and Mr Tait, Director of Education for Victoria, have gone Home to an Empire educational conference, at which reformed spelliDg is one of the subjects to be di6CU&sed. N Heie is an extract burlesquing the innovation: —

In the same journal Hilda Newman writes: — "Leik orl altruists, Prezident Ruzvelt ende vers to pleeze the largest sexshun of tho komunity, and, by the revizjun of speling, he katers for children, fools, and forinerg. Its advantajiz for them are so obviyus that it is hardly nessesary to dwel on them, and thare relief in dispensing with superfluous l«t-ers is. oazely unJerstood — it wood be even grater if wun mite inklude bils and ratcpapers — but, after a kareful perusal of the list of Simplifyd Speling, wun is forst to the konklushun that only the Superior Person will benyfit by the los of the sekond 'as in paleontology and paleozoic, or miss wun in dieresis, and the saving- in tim-p and ink would hardly kompensate for the nolego that he aloan new of the existence of thcze superfluous ' a'e.' As a mater of fakt, the disadvantajiz ar orl on the s.d-c of the Superior Person — wun kan pikshcr him reding about the "Renysonks. 1 and fehn™ glad that Worlter Payter iote in tho kwaint fashun of yesterday. Aiming the disad\antajiz mxkt also be reckoned the objekshuns ov mony peple te eny alterashun in thare names, and thare dislike to be adrest in the stile of the ofis bov"s diry. Mama wil mis her other ' m.' and Unkel Gorge will prefer the 'c' left in his name. ' - Wun wunders, won even the new draft can give you gold, kold, or other ay'monts, and there is nothing to dUtingwish a swarc from an inosent anymal, or a yiiseful expedyent, wether it would not be wiser to paws air prosedinar with the revizjun of spehng ar.d devote sum atenshun to the ' words themselves. At prozent it iz dinkult not to belcve the 'bus konduktor iz komphinentary wen hft ses 'yore fair!' and wun hezitates to arsk at a furmcher shop for sweets. It is possible that the American, Bord haz mor surprizes in stor fo>- us wen we hay got over tho shok and lonhnps of parting with ough, ai>T;h, and eigh. A glan-e into tho fewchcr shos us Bximineis seting thcze papers for posterity: (1) Wot wes a Speling B? (2) Explane the diferen s between Diktater and Diktashun. (3) Rite the foloing peese in nineteenth pentnry spelin<? : 'She sort a divorse becoz he larft wen she koft.'

"But Pesimists shaik thare hods, and tel us that droping leters is only preliminary to deleting wurds, and thorts o\ eny konsekwen= being orlredy very rair, they profisv that sivilised rasis wil evenshaly becum def and dum."