. Hill's Manual of social and business forms: a guide to correct writing .. . omits the o, as in curius, spurius, and when ozi hasthe sound ti he also drops the o, as in duble, jurny. He retainsy at the end of nouns in the singular, as copy, foly. He writes/for//i in alfabet, fonetics, flosofy, etc. He omits all silentvowels in diajraphs, and writes head, hed said, sed, tongue, tung, earth, erth heifer, hefer, sieve, siv, though, tho, leopard, lepard, built, bilt, phthisic, tizic, cleanse, clens, myrrh, mer. The proposed system is very easily written. After an hourspractice the pen runs natura
. Hill's Manual of social and business forms: a guide to correct writing .. . omits the o, as in curius, spurius, and when ozi hasthe sound ti he also drops the o, as in duble, jurny. He retainsy at the end of nouns in the singular, as copy, foly. He writes/for//i in alfabet, fonetics, flosofy, etc. He omits all silentvowels in diajraphs, and writes head, hed said, sed, tongue, tung, earth, erth heifer, hefer, sieve, siv, though, tho, leopard, lepard, built, bilt, phthisic, tizic, cleanse, clens, myrrh, mer. The proposed system is very easily written. After an hourspractice the pen runs naturally into it. The plan is one whichwould cost adults scarcely an effort to learn to write, and noeffort at all to learn to read it. He thinks it is the simplestand most rational compromise with existing usage, prejudice,and etymologies, which can probably be devised with any hopeof acceptance, and if accepted and adopted it would secure tothe Anglo-American race throughout the world one of thesimplest and best orthographies in existence. 52 CAPITAL LETTERS AND CAPITAL LETTERS. [ANY people greatly disfiguretheir writing, and stamp them-selves as illiterate, by theomission or improper use ofcapital letters. What do we think of theman who, wishing to place hisson in the care of a teacher,wrote a letter, introducing his boy, thus? deer sur yeW Bein a man of noleg i Wish tu Put Mi sonin yure skull. Or, of the mother who sends a line by herchild to the boot and shoe merchant as follows ? mister Grean Wunt you let mi Boay hev a Pare ov Esytoad shuz. Fortunately the rules for using capitals arefew, and once acquired, are easily remembered. Rules for the Use of Capitals. Begin every paragraph with a capital letter. Begin every sentence following a period with a capitalletter. Begin each proper name with a capital letter. Begin the names of places, as Boston, Newport, Niagara,with capital letters. Begin the words, North, South, East, West, and their com-pounds and abbreviati
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