The Herald: devoted to pronunciation and amended speling

              The Herald.
DEVOTBD TO PRONUNCIATION AND AMENDED SPELING.
Vol. n, 43.    Toronto, Canada, July-Sept,, 1907.      NR 93.
GET RID OF ENORMITIES.
Surely something may be done. Ther is no reason at all why miselaneos placing of i and e (as believe, receive) in words similarly derived shud be admitted to bother spellers. Why useles, even lawles, use of ph in words not thru Greek? Why fantasy and pheasant? Why plough and though? They who fixt such wer very arbitrary or very careles. Reform such out of existence. Forms regular and familiar need not be changed. Words violently exceptional and indefensibl print in a simpler form to get rid of outstanding enormities.
—Editor of Newcastle-on-Tyne Daily Journal.
NOTATION OF MUSIC : A PARALEL.
Consider the efect on music if its notation wer as inconsistent as that of speech.
Let the staves' lines in ritn music run paralel for haf a bar; then let the lines take the spaces'position; intervveav them and introduce ocasionaly an extra line or two; sometimes uze the trebl clef to represent the bas; call the note in the botm of the stave F in this bar, A in the next; once in while let it "indicate inward music" only; let rests be ?iotes, semibrem be crotchets, sharps be naturals; and yu wil hav a fair idea of how alusivand indicativ signs wil work for music. They wil prove elusiv, ilusiv or delusiv, rather than indicativ.— T. T. Lodge in Academy, 1 Dec, 1906.
THE LANGUAGE'S POWER CRIPLD. Our language is of marvelos grasp and greatnes, posessing Teutonic strength and Romance flexibility. Its triumfant abolition of substantial genders and the simplicity of its syntax render it easiest to lern in the tru manner, by ear; dificulties apear only when we begin to rite. It spreds fast and far. All may combine to desire its adoption. Most of us ar too incurios as to
TRU HISTORY AND MEANINU OF SPELING.
The very great labor to lern, by sheer memory, the ritn word's look, without any real regard to sound, proves so exhausting as to dedn all desire to understand how it all came about. No facilities exist to lern this except in a few modern books not generaly non. It is sad to think that teachers of speling ar not at all expected
to no anything about it, tho they cud eazi-ly explain such rules as exist, and lightn and shortn a very hevy task by recognizing and explaining leading principls. The sad result is that, as a rule, the most highly educated among us cannot tel even in the simpler cases why they spel words as they do.—Prof. Skeat in National Review, Oct., 1806.
EVER SHIFTING.
Evry one thinking about the language is convinced that it has undergon changes toard simplification. Continuation of this is natural and reasonabl. Til this is accepted, litl can be done to overcome prejudice by them who regard any change in speling as an irreverent and violent atak on what has existed unchanged forever. As speling has undergon constant modifica'n farther sientific simplification apeals to all as useful and in acord with the genius of the language.—SSB Letter to Signers.
NEWS-NOTES AND   COMENTS.
—State Teachers'Aso'ns of Illinoi, Iowa) Minnesota and Wisconsin aprove Simplified Sp-
—Normal scools in Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Pensyl'a, Wisconsin and other states hav adopted the new forms.
—The Board of Superintendents of New York city unanimosly recomended use of the 300 words in the city scools. Their administrativ superiors, the Board of Education, rejected this— yet it all shows the opinion of educational experts in the largest city in America.
—Ther is no pleasing conservativs. The time has gon by for standing stil, and if the pace is more rapid than is liked, anti-reformers hav themselvs to blame They hav ruled the roost too long.—H. Drummond iii Academy, 27 Oct.
—The Dunlop Tire  and  Rubber Goods Co. set a good exampl, being the first in Canada, so far as we no, to uze simplified speling in their ad-vertisments* John Wanamaker's ad's in the Phil-ad'a North American hav words like embosi, dau-ter, lafter, nnpackt. In his New York ad's some papers folo instructions, others do not. In ten years all this wil not be regarded as an inovation but as the uzual thing.— Toronto World.
—Ther is a definit efort to force Italian imigration to the suthern U. S. Several Italian colonies ar establisht there, with more in prospect.—American Review of Rev., Nov. 1906, p. 634. In speech, vowels especialy, the sutherner, the Italian andthe Negro ar likely to blend redily. The difrence in speech, alredy considerabl, between North and South, wud then be more markt. Keeping to Italian vowels as standard,alredy de-sirabl on other considerations, apears confirmd as a wise cousre for this later rsason.