III HOMONYMS A HOMONYM is a word that agrees with another in sound, but differs from it in spelling and meaning. When dictating, care should be taken to distinguish the word required, so as to save correction in manuscript or typewritten matter. Of this class of words the following are typical examples: IV RULES FOR THE SIMPLIFICATION OF SPELLING THE following rules are recommended by the American Philological Association, the Spelling Reform Association, and the Philological Society of England, and are included here to serve as guides to authors and others in sympathy with the efforts being made to secure a logical and simpler form of orthography. All words affected by these rules are to be found in the vocabulary of the "Standard Dictionary"; in recording the new phonetic forms the editor has not introduced any theories of his own. Rule I (1) Change final "ed" to "t" when so pronounced, as in abashed (abasht), wished (wisht), etc., and, if a double consonant precedes, drop one of the consonants, as in chipped (chipt), dressed (drest), hopped (hopt), etc. (2) Retain final "ed" when the "e" affects a preceding sound. |