English spelling and spelling reform

It was my fortune in 1906 to be wandering in lands where English is not spoken, when the President of the United States issued his famous order in regard to spelling. Little, th...

[6] Addison’s _Remarks on Italy, etc._, ed. of 1705, _fiber_, p. 212; _salt-peter_, p. 239; _scepter_, pp. 19, 124; _theater_, pp. 102, 155, 156, 433 (twice), 521; _theatre_, p....

The unintelligent opposition of the intelligent! I have specified this as the most formidable of the active forces hostile to reform of English orthography. No duty is imposed u...

It is with a good deal of hesitation that I approach this part of my subject. To treat it fully, to consider it in all its details, would require a familiarity with the history...

“Well, honor is the subject of my story,” says Cassius to Brutus, in his effort to persuade his friend to join the conspiracy against the dictator. It was h-o-n-o-r however that...

He who has taken the pains to master the details given in the chapter on English sounds and the signs which are intended to represent them, will have received some conception of...

Two languages, it has just been said, we have: one we write, and one we speak. To bring them even remotely into conformity is one of the hardest problems to solve that was ever...

There remains one final consideration. No one who has had the patience to examine dispassionately the facts contained in the preceding chapters can have failed to recognize the...