THE ALPHABET.
REVISION ADVOCATED. A PROFESSOR’S SCHEME. Press Association-Electric Telegraph-Copyright. (Received Monday, 9.55 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sunday. At Philadelphia, Professor Godfrey Dewey, of Harvard University, addressing the English Language 'Congress, advocated a revision of the alphabet to a System of twenty-four consonants, thirteen vowels, four dipthongs, and a symbol for the word “the.”
lle declared that this scheme would save one billion dollars a year. He explained that with the new alphabet fewer symbols were needed to express thoughts, and millions of tons less paper would be necessary in books. Newspapers would be smaller and lighter, with a consequent saving of time and labour. ' , Professor Dewey declared J that the greatest problem of printed English today was typographical.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 29 November 1926, Page 5
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118THE ALPHABET. Wairarapa Daily Times, 29 November 1926, Page 5
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