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Spelling: A Magazine Devoted to the Simplification of English Orthografy Volume 1 - Couverture rigide
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Vol. I MAY 1887 No. rSPELLING. The purpose of this publication is exprest by its title. It wil treat of Spelling, and all that is practically concernd with it. Spelling is the representation, by visibl symbols, of the sounds of human speech, in the order of their articulation. To distinguish and describe these sounds and the mode of their articulation, is the business of fonetics ;to devize and apply intelligibl symbols for them is the business of spelling. Spelling is the grafic and visibl form, as pronunciation is the fysiological and audibl form, of language. Fonetics, which cuvers the two fases of pronunciation, is immediately connected with alfabetics, which cuvers the two fases of spelling. These departments of filology ar closely conected with etymology, which is, on one side, the history of the fonetic and visibl forms of words, and on the other, the history of their meanings. And this again tuches on literature and filosofy, so that spelling is more or less involvd in all the manifestations of language. It is fitting, then, that spelling should not remain without sum agency to concentrate and direct the thought and energy which may tend to its explanation and improvement. Every other branch of filology and literature has its profest exponents and promoters, in proportion to its importance; and without being disposed to exalt spelling abuv its due place in the scale of importance, we assert that it has a place, and that not the lowest. If not greatly important in itself, it is greatly important in its relations. English spelling has a graver importance :it is not, as it ought to be, merely a science, a useful art; it is a far-reaching blight, a hevy burdn, upon the reason and the higher activities of the English-speaking race. So long as it remains in its present form, a standing contradiction to the complimentary definition which includes the Englis
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- ÉditeurPalala Press
- Date d'édition2016
- ISBN 10 135617857X
- ISBN 13 9781356178575
- ReliureRelié
- Langueanglais
- Nombre de pages208
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