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seam, seem

mustard, mustered sea, see

mode, mowed

muscle, mussel

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shear, sheer size, sighs sleight, slight sold, soled

so, sew, sow soar, sore

some, sum

son, sun stake, steak stair, stare

stationary, sta

tionery steal, steel storey, story straight, strait

sweet, suite sword, soared

tacks, tax

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tail, tale

limb, limn

plum, plumb

tare, tear

load, lowed

pole, poll

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team, teem

throe, throw

lynx, links

maid, made male, mail

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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.

(1) Change final

Rule I

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.

(a) When the preceding vowel sound is long and expressed by a single letter, as the following:

baked, not bakt, as bakt

would be pronounced backed

caked, not cakt

craped, not crapt

draped, not drapt

gaped, not gapt
chafed, not chaft
coped, not copt
moped, not mopt
roped, not ropt

N.B.-The "e" does not affect the preceding vowel sound when expressed by two or more letters, as in booked (bookt), bleached (bleacht), crouched (croucht).

(b) When a preceding "c" has the sound of "s," as in chanced (not chanct), forced (not forct), faced (not fact), etc.

Rule 2

(1) Drop "ue" at the end of words when the preceding vowel is short or a diphthong, as in dialogue, catalogue, etc. Thus, spell dialog, catalog, demagog, epilog, synagog, etc.

(2) Retain "ue" when the preceding single vowel is long, as in prorogue, vogue, disembogue, pirogue, plague, vague, fatigue.

Rule 3

(1) Drop final "e" from words ending in "ite" when the "i" is short, as hypocrit, opposit, preterit, requisit, etc.

(2) Retain final "e" when the "i" is long, as in finite, polite, unite, etc,

Rule 4

Drop final "te" in words like cigarette, coquette, quartette, etc. Thus, spell coquet, epaulet, quartet, and all words of the same class which are Anglicized.

(1) Drop final

Rule 5

me" in words like programme, and spell program.

(2) Retain final "me" in written medical prescriptions, where the form gram might be mistaken for grain, and cause serious error.

Rule 6

(1) Drop final "e" from words ending in "ile" when the "i" is short, as in fragil(e, ductil(e, etc.

(2) Retain final " e" when the "i" is long, as in gentile, exile, etc.

Rule 7

(1) Drop final "e" from words ending in "ine" when the "i" is short, as in disciplin (e, doctrin (e, feminin(e, etc.

(2) Retain final "e" when the "i" is long, as in sunshine, asinine, machine, etc.

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