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The Golden Age for January 10, 1907.
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From a Bad Speller’s Standpoint.
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mosynary. ” That is the conventional way of spell
ing that Greek word into English; but it is hope
lessly and abominably wrong. In the Greek the
double “e” is not double “epsilon”; but it is ep
silon 41 eta, ’ ’ two entirely different vowels; then,
in the next to the last syllable, the “a” is not the
Greek “alpha,” but it is that same “eta.” So
that we find the Greek “eta,” and the omega are
lost completely when we import them into English,
yet our learned men will not consent to let “f”
represent its exact equivalent in the Greek, and
make all sorts of fun of us if we call this sort of
talk “filosofy.”
It is nonsense to talk about the “sacred tradi
tion of English spelling.” English spelling has
been changing for the better ever since the days
of the Tudors. Shakespeare and Bacon came into
the world in those days, and I have no doubt but
they both demanded improvement; but it was a
hundred and fifty years later before there was any
great progress. But we have improved on the
spelling of Goldsmith and Samuel Johnson a great
deal. But much of that old traditional nondescript
spelling still mars and distorts our vocabulary.
We ought to simplify it. We ought to make it
so that we may have the sound of the words as a
reliable guide to the spelling. And then we ought
to send every one of our children that is a dunce
in the spelling class and reasonably bright else
where, to an oculist, that his eyes may be thorough
ly tested and adjusted with proper glasses.
A Correction.
In the article in the last Golden Age, ‘ ‘ From a Bad
Speller’s Standpoint,” the helpful printer, I pre
sume, did not like for me to give away my age,
so when I wrote that I did not discover the defect
in my vision until I was fifty (50) years old; he
put it 15.
Fitzgerald, Ga., December 23, 1906.
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