. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Nov. 9, 1899. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 713 "The Reformed Spelling" is the caption of an article in Gleaning-s in Bee-Culture, by E. B. Thornton, in which Mr. Thornton makes a strong plea for a better spelling-, quoting from the editor of the Independent, as follows : The editor of the Independent puts the matter in its true light when he says that the whole matter is one that "properly belongs to the societies for the prevention of cruelty to ; "The weariness, the tears, the blot- ted copybooks, the nervous strain we put
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Nov. 9, 1899. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 713 "The Reformed Spelling" is the caption of an article in Gleaning-s in Bee-Culture, by E. B. Thornton, in which Mr. Thornton makes a strong plea for a better spelling-, quoting from the editor of the Independent, as follows : The editor of the Independent puts the matter in its true light when he says that the whole matter is one that "properly belongs to the societies for the prevention of cruelty to ; "The weariness, the tears, the blot- ted copybooks, the nervous strain we put on our children, are our shame " " We are often told that our chil- dren are far more backward than the children of other lan- guages. How can it be otherwise ? The time that we waste in learning to read and spell, a German or Spanish or Italian child can give to his arithmetic and ; "Many more children could go to the high school and to college if their years and their patience had not been exhausted in useless labor at the very threshold of ; Pitman tried for SO years to make a complete job of it on a thoroly phonetic basis, and he accomplisht little more than to call attention (not always favorable) to the subject. American reformers in the meantime have brought forward not less than a dozen different systems, but no one would adopt them. The trouble with them all is that they are too .good. They go too far. The only advance that has ever been made on this line has been made by the step-by-step method—a word, or a class of words at a time. Mr. Thornton pleads for the spelling recommended by the National Educational Association in the following list: Program (programme) ; tho (though) ; altho (although); thoro (thorough) ; thorofare (thoroughfare) ; thru (through); thruout (throughout) ; catalog (catalogue); prolog (pro- logue) ; decalog (decalogue) ; demagog (demagogue) ; peda- gog (pedagogue). Editor E. R. Root offers this footn
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