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About Ashland American. (Ashland, Jackson County, Or.) 1927-1927 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1927)
New Alphabet to Save a Billion a Year Fonctic Key Alfabet 34 C onsonants Prist Script P b 'Jr t d k A Pi bi ti di ki As la p in , c u p b in , c u b • te n , b e t d en , bed 0 £ / 4 fa n , safe V V V ' van, d 8 Z X S • / 3 € T eh ed es ez bcivt: t h ig h , b a t h t h y , b a th e sea l, ra ce zeal, raise. a ssu re, ru sh «3 U at <1 a JL el e 2 X it X l ot & 9 XT vt 8 /6 ©r O <r u XL x i- o ut a I 1 1 A r ft a a e com e, back g a zu re, rou ge ch o ice , r ic h » V ow els Print Script Name € • i gum , bag h By ELM O 8 C O T T W A T S O N Naas i Q © a Asia mm, p a t, ( p a i r ) a lm s, p a rt, ms e d g e , le t a g e , la te , m a y is, sit. a r m y ea se, s e a t, me odd, not aw ed, naught u p , to n , (tu r n ) a b o u t, u tte r, n a t io n , ch in a o p e n , to n e , s h o w fu ll, c o u ld fo o l, sh oo 4 D ipthongs EMEUUER the dnys when Alia Frist Script Name jo k e , r id g e j v you started on the royal • • rond to learning by dili a isle , p in t, b y d á m m em m e t , h im • • gent study In the front of •9*- 0 o i l , p o in t , b o y e the old first reader and n m en n e t , th in then, at the command of di o u t , p o w e r, n o w 41 'ÜL b c y in k , t h in g • “ teacher," you. In com Ü p u r e , fe w U Á¿ pany with other neo U la id , d e a l h l phytes In formal educa r /n r re ra id , d e a r S u pplem entary S igns tion as offered In the old w ALT we w e t, q u it district school, chanted - th o In chorus "A-B-C-D-E-F" H i /fix ye y e t , y o u and so on through the alphabet until % A wordsign or logotipe for the you ended triumphantly “ X-Y-Z and h ih h e h e a d , w h o commonest word of English, the, ■o forth” ? Remember that queer lit tle wlggly symbol which stood for “and so forth” and how, when you with all their sounds, syllables and In the first four grades alone. Books frew a little older and knew what letters. Our present system of spell would he thinner and children could “ so forth" meant, you wondered why ing la unwieldy, confusing, Irregular progress faster with the English It said "and so forth" when there and Incomprehensible to the child or language simplified for them if they were Just 20 letters In the alphabet the foreigner who attempts It for the did not have to waste time and effort and no more? first time. This Is due mainly to the figuring out queerly spelled words. Well, that “ and so forth" Is coming Inconsistency between spelling and 8. The Alfabet would enable for true If a certain Harvard graduate pronunciation, even In such simple eigners to learn English more easily has his way about It For Dr. Godfrey words as "gave” and “have." The and would help break down the Dewey has a new system of A-B-Cs best Illustration of this Inconsistency prejudices which prevent the adoption which adds 19 letters to the present Is In words containing “ough” which of English ns a universal language. alphabet Of course, modern peda has eight different pronunciations, as Radio has brought the need of such n gogy has done away with the old- Illustrated In the following rhyme: universal language to the attention fashioned method of having the child of the whole world. English, because T h rou g h th « rou g h c o u g h and h ic commit the alphabet to memory be of Its cosmopolitan vocabulary and c o u g h p lou g h me th rou g h fore he begins to learn words, and the I o u g h t to rub your h o r s a s h ou g h fbr grammatical simplicity. Is well fitted you. schools of today start the child Imme for destiny as the universal language. diately upon the task of putting the Each of these words, therefore, can But Its spelling needs to be straight letters together to form words In be pronounced eight different ways. ened out stead of his learning them as Individ Thus, according to the laws of mathe It Is as a teaching system that ual symbols In a certain sequence. matics, eight times 8x8x8x8x8x8x8 Doctor Dewey hopea to have the new This Is considered a vast Improve equals 10,777,210 different pronuncia Alfabet adopted. He believes that It ment over the old-fashioned chanting tions of the entire sentence. And only will prove Its value there and that procedure, but Doctor Dewey believes one of that number will be right! fact will lead to Its general adoption. that even It can be ln>proved upon Or take the word "foolish." He can To test his theory that a child can and the speaking and writing of Eng show 013,079 different ways of spelling learn the new system easily, he llsh simplified by enlarging the alpha It, since the sound “f* has seven differ taught It to his daughter at the age of bet. During all these years, says he, ent ways of spelling; the sound “oo,” seven. After five hours' study she we have been trying to cram a cos 20; the sound "1," 1 1 ; the sound "I" could use the new Alfahet correctly In mopolitan language, made up of dif 20; and the sound "ah," 11. One way writing a letter to hei^ mother. Doctor ferent elements from many tongues. In which this word could be spelled I>ewey realizes that general adoption Into 20 Latin symbols and he thinks and yet pronounced as It Is would he of the system would necessitate new that by using 41 symbols we can "pphoughtllapshe" (as In the words printing type, but he Is firmly con straighten out the Mother Tongue and "sapphire," "through," “ hustle,” "mar vinced that the eventual saving would avoid working some of our present 2fl riage” and “pshaw"), make up for the immediate cost. He symbols overtime. Incidentally, he be l uder Doctor Dewey's system In estimates that it can become univer lieves that he can save the nation a the "Fonetlc Key Alfubet," there Is a sally established within three genera billion dollars a year on Its printing symbol for each sound, in the major tlons and of general public use in ona. bill by eliminating the waste due to ity of cases these symbols look exact Already It has passed one barrier. In the use of the present alphabet. ly like the letters of the present al that a typewriter with the new pho Doctor Dewey proposes to make phabet or are so similar to them that netic type has been made by one of these sweeping changes by a "Fondle It Is ensy to distinguish them. Cap the oldest typewt ,tag manufacturing Key Alfnbet," consisting of 24 con itals have been dispensed with, since companies and Is available for public sonants, IS vowels, four dlfthongs and they waste time. Instead, In printing, use. a supplementary sign for the word the first letter of every sentence Although Doctor Dewey is secretary "the." That one word. Incidentally, Is would be set In bold face type and of the Simplified Spelling board, the the source of greatest waste In our would be blacker than the others. In new Alfabet Is not connected with the language, says Doctor l>ewey, who as writing, a little cross Is placed above new simplified spelling, except that It, secretary of the Simplified Spelling and to the left of the letter to In too. Is a part of a growing movement board, founded and endowed by the dicate that It la the beginning of a to write as we speak. His Alfubet la late Andrew Carnegie, has studied the sentence or Is a capital letter. The bnsed npon a similar one often re English language carefully for many pronouns would be entirely changed ferred to «• the National Education years. He has found that In modern and if you (only we should say "yu” ) Association Alfahet, used as key one printed literature the word "the" ap wanted to refer to yourself. Instead of the New Standard Itctlonnry. This pears 7,810 times In every 100,000 of the present capital "I" you would Alfahet recognizes 48 different sounds, words nnd that 7 per cent of all print write a small letter "a" with a dot but Doctor I>ewey has reduced that ed paper Is covered with "the's." A over It (see first character In 4 dlf number to 41. "Only one sound for »heer waste, he declares, and It can be thongs In the alfahet shown above). each sign and only one sign for each remedied by using one symbol to take ; In the present way o f spelling one sound" Is the slogan through which the place of this word made up of hundred average words contain 488 he hope« to make the new Alfubet three symbols. letters. Under Itoctor IVwey's plan popular. The ten commonest word* In our 100 words can be printed with 3fi(S let Tba new Alfabet la not only a speech and writing, he also finds, are ters. So by removing many of the hobby with him. It la an Ideal and “ the," “of." “ and." “to," "a." "In." superfluous letters snd syllables In something of an Inheritance. His fa "that." "It," “Is." and “ I," and these our present words, such as the "ough" ther, Melvtl Dewey, was one of the compose 28 per cent of the written and the final "e" on a large number founders of an International confer language. By condensing these words, of worda a great saving In time and ence for the amendment of English but more especially by condensing effort could be effected. In fact, there orthography 80 years ago. As a hoy much longer words which are bur are three p«>ett!re benefits claimed by Doctor Dewey was a natural speller dened with superfluous letters, he ee the ortglnator of the rnnetlc Key Al and champion In many a school spell tlmates that the total coat of writing fabet if his plan la adopted. They are ing bee He h*a been studying short and printing in this country, which as follows: hand for 80 years and during the last has been estimated at $3,000,000,000 1. An Initial saving of $000,000,000 six or eight years haa been er.ocen can be reduced one-sixth or to $000, and a correepondlng saving In the tratlng on the new Alfabet for general 000,000 time of thle nation. Working hours use. He was graduated from Harvard Doctor Dewey, basing hta con cl u of printers «rill be shortened. Typists In 1900 and returned for a master of ■Ions upon eight years of research In and stenographers will hare lea« w< rk education degree In 1021, receiving the matter, declares that onewtvth of to do and leas stationery will be re hla doctor of education degree last the letters we us# In writing words are quired for business correspondence. year. In 1928 he puhllahed a book useless And he believe« that hla 1 2. A saving of one and one half "The Relative Frequency of English statement la baaed upon sufficient evf years for each child. It Is estimated Siweeh Boards" which sms a forerun deuce, for during the eight years he has that adoption of the Alfahet would ner of the new Alfahet which he has counted and tabulated luO.OOO words aeve the country annually S22O.000.0U0 evolved from hla years of study. R y Albert Rooke Makes His Comeback W ins six-year fight for health. N ow well and strong at 60, Husky as ever, he praises Tanlac At 1830 West 39th Place Los An geles, lives Albert A. Rooke. a re spected citizen with 38 years of active railroad experience. He tells of a very interesting experience. “ About seven years c^o,” says Mr. Rooke, “ my stomach and liver went back on me. It was a most distressing experience. Nothing seemed to agree with mej I lost all desire for food. A sound night’s sleep was out of the question, so I rose each morning tired and pepless. Then constipation d e veloped and made life a continuous misery. I lost weight and could hardly drag mvself around a good deal of the time. 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