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English spelling and spelling reform

Chapter 13: FOOTNOTES:
By Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury
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The author surveys English orthography, tracing its irregularities to historical pronunciation shifts and inconsistent letter values, and enumerates vowel, digraph, and consonant problems. He recounts personal advocacy and educational attitudes toward reform, compiles scattered facts about spelling history and phonetics, examines proposed relief methods, and responds to common objections such as loss of etymological information, confusing identical spellings for different meanings, rendering existing books obsolete, and the limits of purely phonetic systems. The work closes by weighing practical, gradual measures and the considerations required to implement a restrained and workable reform.

FOOTNOTES:

[16] Duchess of Powysland, chap. x.

[17]

And add to these retired leisure
That in trim garden takes his pleasure.

—Il Penseroso.

[18] See page 105.

[19] Memoir of the Life and Writings of the late William Taylor of Norwich. London, 1843. Southey to Taylor, July 13, 1803, vol. i, p. 466.

[20] See page 125.

[21] “The church is one huge nef with a double Aisle to it.”—Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, etc. First edition, 1705, p. 493.

[22] In Professor Arber’s accurate reprint of the original edition, the word, spelled as frend, can be found on pages, 20, 21, 22, 24, 43, 73, 75, 87, 89, 90, 91, 94, 99, 113, 121, 140, 149, 154, and 158. In some instances the word appears two or more times on the page. On pages 23 (twice) and 113 is found frendly, and on page 140 frendship. Nowhere does the i appear in these last two words. The solitary instance of the spelling friend is on page 112.

[23] Standard of Pronunciation in English, pp. 191-202.

[24] Faerie Queene, Book II, canto ix, st. 21.

[25] Moore’s Diary, vol. v, p. 249.

[26] The Life of William Morris, by J. W. Mackail, London, 1899, vol. i, p. 8.