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Society desires, but by a complete reform, is asking a 

 great deal. And we think this great deal is too much. 

 I know of one way alone by which it might be possible, 

 jind that is, that the Daily Mail use its front page each 

 day for a month telling its readers what Peetickay is, 

 and thereafter publish its news exclusively in the Pee- 

 tickay type. Whatever happens, the appeal must be made 

 in some way to everybody. To declare that the present 

 system of spelling is silly, illogical, fatuous, or anything 

 you Uke to an audience of twenty is not doing any good. 

 With all this we agree — but we do nothing. 



Chamging the spelling of words is more hopeless than 

 trying to introduce an ideal language. For an ideal lan- 

 guage like Ido may e.vist side by side with our own, but 

 if one thing is certain it is that we will not have simul- 

 taneously two ways of spelling. 



A man once came to O-vford and suggested to the 

 authorities there that if the High were first of all straight- 

 ened out and then mdened, if a few more colleges were 

 built on the southern side, and if, finally, a mound with 

 a castle upon it were erected on Christ Church meadow 

 to dominate the whole, the High might then have some 

 chance of competing with Princes Street, Edinburgh, in 

 beauty. It was undoubtedly an excellent scheme. Many 

 people told him so. What criticism there was was con- 

 structive. The single difficulty was in carrj'ing the 

 scheme out. That was insurmountable. 



So we beUeve it is with new methods of spelling. We 

 are much too attached to the present system ever volun- 

 tarily to allow changes to take place. 



First of all it is a tremendous innovation, and secondly, 

 rightly or wrongly, we beheve that a great deal of beauty, 

 of pleasant associations, and of happy memories are bound 

 up with words as at present we know them. All this 

 would disappear for us if we ceased to spell as we do. 

 But for the sake of the young growing up, should we 

 not be unselfish and give up the old system ? As a nation 

 we shall never rise (or fall) to that. 



P. K. F. 



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