7 etC.; 
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<amin, 
nd at 
ormal 
dence 
arrive 
r and 
th ete. 
2al, as 
2 and 
Onarc, 
ekanic, 
m Sire 
dD ete. 
dwel, 
, singl 
uartet 
lagog, 
*ogue, 
sound. 
where 
abby, 
artize. 
enter, 
color. 
{ected 
a few 
short 
SIMPLER SPELING RULES 
5 
Besides chanjes in S S B rules we uzualy: 
Spel cud, wud and shud for these constantly occurring words 
Uze silabic 1, m, n and r without the unpronounst vowel; e.g. single 
is not singlee or singul but singl, just as prism and enthusiasm ar not 
prisum and enthusiasum. Also omit preceding obscure vowel before 
silabic 1, m, n, r. These 4 consonants partake of the nature of a vowel 
and so form silabls; little was pronounst litel, then litul, then lital, and 
now simply lit. Many words ar going thru this same shortning. We 
hav no letr for this lo unstrest vowel which most peopl ignore. The 
Standard dictionary says it is ‘reduced to a slyt vocalic resonance’. As 
the present vowel is misleading and we hav no letr for this very obscure 
sound it is betr to omit it and thus shortn the word. Peopl ar les likely 
to mispronounce this short form than the uzual speling; e.g. pedal, 
metal, gambol, ar not pronounst as speld, but more and more exactly like 
peddle, mettle, gamble, which ar correctly speld pedl, metl, gambl. For 
indicating minute shades of pronunciation in a dictionary our short 
speling wud not be enuf but it is ampl for all ordinary use 
Uze u for o or ou pronounst as in us; e.g. obvius, famus, cuntry, 
cum, handsum 
Uze j for dg, dge or g, pronounst j. e.g. jujment, rij, jem (except in propr 
nouns and adjectivs, and in old D C entries and for initial in Index) 
Uze y with its very common sound in by, my, reply etc. for eigh, igh, 
er, ie, wi and uy; e.g. for height, might, pleistocene, replied, guide, buy, we 
spel hyt, myt, plystocene, replyd, gyd, by 
We often leav i—e, as in bite, ride etc. til later 
Uze k for ck or ch, medial or final, if pronounst k; e.g. bak, stok, skool, 
mekanic, epok, monark 
For the present we often leav initial ¢, as in caracter 
Drop w from ow final pronounst o; e.g. blo, flo, sho etc., but retain in 
inflected forms, e.g. blows, blown, blowing 
Drop any silent letr that is foneticly useless; e.g. drop ¢ from fascinate 
Drop 1 of dubl letrs that serv no use; e.g. clas, curiculum, paralel, 
but retain if short form wud mislead, as in hiss, off 
Sumtimes we substitute s for ce, when it wil not sugjest wrong pronuncia- 
tion, e. g. offis, servis, prejudis, but not fens for fence; also we sumtimes sub- 
stitute z for s or se, as in becauz, eazy, uzual, but not in inflections, as in 
rubs digs, egs (s pronounst z is left in inflections becauz there ar so many, 
and chiefly becauz the vocal organs force the z sound after voist consonants 
b, d, g, m, ng, v as in rubs, pads, digs, egs, hums, bangs, givs, etc. Try- 
ing to pronounce s results in rups, pats, diks, eks, humps, banks, gifs etc.) 
We leav many bad spelings where corrections as in similar words myt 
lead careless readers into mispronunciation; e.g. we omit c, a silly dupli- 
cation of k, in bak, but leav it in backer becauz baker wud confuze with 
the bred man. With only 23 letrs for 40 sounds we must make only more 
obrius needed chanjes and leav many inconsistencies til we hav the needed 
new letrs or modifyd forms to represent the other 17