. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 228 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. April 14, American Bee Journal and Spelling Reform. BY C. P. DADANT. Friend York :—I wish to digress a little from the bee- talk to-day to Have my say in regard to the new way of spell- ing that you have introduced in the columns of the American Bee Journal, as I notice some comments upon it by your dif- ferent contributors. This new spelling is certainly offensive to the eye before we become accustomed to it. In the beginning, I used to do as Mr. Jenkins remarks—it used to detract my attention from the subject In questio
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 228 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. April 14, American Bee Journal and Spelling Reform. BY C. P. DADANT. Friend York :—I wish to digress a little from the bee- talk to-day to Have my say in regard to the new way of spell- ing that you have introduced in the columns of the American Bee Journal, as I notice some comments upon it by your dif- ferent contributors. This new spelling is certainly offensive to the eye before we become accustomed to it. In the beginning, I used to do as Mr. Jenkins remarks—it used to detract my attention from the subject In question. But one evidently gets used to this, for I no longer notice It, altho the American Bee Journal is, I believe, the only paper that we take which follows this reform. The greatest objection to the spelling reforms, such as this, come from people who are good scholars, and who object very often on the ground that if we make reforms on this sub- ject it will become impossible to recognize an educated person from au uneducated one, since every one can write just as he talks. This argument is not well founded. If the reform is brought about in the right way, It will bear only, as with your method, on such parts of speech as will have been agreed upon, and It will require rather more of an education than less for writers to keep Informed upon these changes. I am free to confess that, altho I approve of the change, it would be next to impossible for me to follow this orthog- raphy from mere slavery to habit. I would have to drill my- self very carefully for quite awhile in order to do away In my handwriting with the old way of spelling. But because we are accustomed to a bad way should we discourage those who are faithfully trying to educate the young generation to better ways? Let the old fogies, like myself, stick to their old ways If they cannot do otherwise, but let not any of them ridicule the progressive man who tries to bring forward something better. Otherwise we might a
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