10. y.- Spell rhyme rime.
11. Dubl consonants may be simplified.
Final b, d, g, n, r, t, f, 1, s. as in ebb, add, egg, inn. purr, bug, bailiff, dull, buzz, etc. (not all. hall).
Medial before another consonant, as battle, ripple, written (wrifn), etc.
Initial unaccented prefixes, and other unac cented syllables, as in abbreviate, accuse, affair, etc., curvetting, traveller. etc.
12. b.- Drop silent b in bomb, crumb, debt, doubt, dumb. lamb, limb, numb, plumb. subtle, succumb, thumb.
13. c.- Change c back to s in cinder. expence, fierce. hence, once, peace, scarce, since, source, thence, tierce, whence.
14. ch.- Drop the h of ch in chamomile, choler. cholera, melancholy, school, stomach.
Change to k ache (ake), anchor (anker).
15. d.- Change d and ed final tot when so pronounced, as in crossed (crost), looked (lookt), etc., unless the e affects the preceding sound, as in chafed, chanced.
16. g.- Drop g in feign, foreign, sovereign.
17. gh.- Drop h in aghast, burgh, ghost.
Drop gh in haughty, though (tho), through (Mrs). Change gh to f where it has that sound, as in cough, enough, laughter, tough. etc.
18. 1.- Drop l in could.
19. p.- Drop p in receipt.
20. a.- Drop s in aisle, demesne, Change s to s in distinctive words, as in abuse verb, house verb, rise verb. etc.
21. se,- Drop c in scent, scythe (sithe).
22. tch.- Drop I in catch, pitch, witch, etc.
23. w.- Drop w in whole.
24. ph.- Write f for ph, as in philosophy, sphere, etc.
After 1884 the subject of spelling reform did not attract any general attention for more than 20 years in spite of the publication of periodicals devoted to the propaganda, and the occasional outbreak of some enthusiastic votary, but in 1906 the establishment of the "Simplified Spelling Board" gave the reform a vigorous thrust forward. The board recommended for adoption a list of 300 "simplified spellings° with which to begin the change toward a more scientific literation of the language. This move would probably have attracted no more notice than many of its predecessors, had not Presi dent Roosevelt issued an executive order, in August 1906, directing the public. printer to use
all these spellings in the papers sent out by his office. The Congress, however, would not allow these changes to be made in the papers that came to the members from the printer, and in December the order was rescinded. The rather ill-advised exuberance of some of the advocates of the reform has made it an object of temporary ridicule, hut the probabilities are that the really great advantages to he gained will he more and more appreciated, until the work of the reformers produces tangible and en during results. The practice of isolated in dividuals may help, but real reform comes slowly and in accordance with reason and the laws of language. The Simplified Board claims that 380 institutions of higher learning and 456 newspapers and periodicals are now using most of the spellings recommended by the Board.
The character of the simplifications proposed is indicated by the following examples: 1. When ed final is pronounced I. write it simply t, where the change will not suggest an incorrect pronunciation, as ask!, fixt, wish:, etc.; reducing a preceding double consonant to a single consonant, as blest, kist. dips, dropt, slept, etc.; and changing -red to -st, as pronouns!, rejoin. reverst, etc.; but avoid misleading forms like bald for baked, deduct or dedisst for deduced, etc.
2. Change ph to f when so sounded as alfaba, fonogrxf, folograf, sulfur, !defame, telegraf, etc.
3. Drop e final after -iv and -es, as deb, emelt ears. sere, desert; etc.; also, in the endings -lie, -ice. -ise, -ite, -ice, unstressed pronounced il, in, it, is, as hostil, testa, anilin, defermin, engin, examin, gen uin, imagin, practis, proinis, deficit, favorit, infinit, opposit, ticks, comparativ. Positiv, etc.; and at the end of ar(e), hav(e), giv(e), forgiv(e), nosgiv(e), liv(e); because its normal use after a single consonant is to show that the preceding vowel is long. Hence it is retained in such words as bare. brave, mile, fine, wise, polite, arrive.