English spelling and spelling reform

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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.

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[27] Line 850.

[28] Line 1825.

[29] Sonnets 91 and 92.

[30] Venus and Adonis, lines 969, 976; The Rape of Lucrece, 1099, 1290, 1380, 1506; in line 586 it is labor.

[31] In the original edition of The Rape of Lucrece, honor is found in lines 45, 142, 146, 156, 574, 579, 834, 841, 842, 1031, 1032, 1184, 1186, 1190, 1201, 1608, and 1705; honour is found in lines 27, 145, and 516. In Venus and Adonis the word occurs in lines 558 and 994, both times as honor.

[32] Letters of David Hume to William Strahan, Oxford, 1888, p. 27.

[33] Burton’s Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Edinburgh, 1846, vol. ii, p. 43. Burton changed Hume’s spellings to conform to modern orthography.

[34] Imaginary Conversations. Archdeacon Hare and Walter Landor.