seam, seem mustard, mustered sea, see mode, mowed muscle, mussel 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 tail, tale limb, limn plum, plumb tare, tear load, lowed pole, poll team, teem throe, throw lynx, links maid, made male, mail 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 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. |