The Problem of Spelling Reform
The Problem of Spelling Reform
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There is an extremely silly habit of never allowing v to stand at the end of a word. Such is our conservatism that the origin of the habit dates from the time when the sound of v was denoted by u, and when the u was always followed by an e^ or at any rate by a vowel, in order to show that v (and not u) was the sound intended. When the old form haiie became have, the final e per- formed no function, and should have been dropped. We ought accordingly to have no hesitation in writing hav, giv, abw...v, cum, and the like. We could then distinguish I'w from live (with long i). We could further extend this dropping of e to words like THE PROBLEM OF SPELLING REFORM 1 1 agreev, aproov, solv, adz, freez, and many others. Awe may be re- duced to aw, and axe to ax. It is interesting to know that the final e in ax{e) is unjustifiable by etymology, as is duly pointed out in the New English Dictionary. To write axe is due to mere caprice ; especially when we write ox instead of the Mid. Eng. Oxe^ in which the final e was really syllabic and so had once a meaning.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
There is an extremely silly habit of never allowing v to stand at the end of a word. Such is our conservatism that the origin of the habit dates from the time when the sound of v was denoted by u, and when the u was always followed by an e^ or at any rate by a vowel, in order to show that v (and not u) was the sound intended. When the old form haiie became have, the final e per- formed no function, and should have been dropped. We ought accordingly to have no hesitation in writing hav, giv, abw...v, cum, and the like. We could then distinguish I'w from live (with long i). We could further extend this dropping of e to words like THE PROBLEM OF SPELLING REFORM 1 1 agreev, aproov, solv, adz, freez, and many others. Awe may be re- duced to aw, and axe to ax. It is interesting to know that the final e in ax{e) is unjustifiable by etymology, as is duly pointed out in the New English Dictionary. To write axe is due to mere caprice ; especially when we write ox instead of the Mid. Eng. Oxe^ in which the final e was really syllabic and so had once a meaning.
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