#Spell insurmountable plus#

Pikard, who addressed the senator as 'Mr Linkon,' ran one such phonetic school in Mt. Pitman devised a phonetic alphabet as well, and many American readers of his Phonetic Journal taught versions of his phonetic spelling, or systems they devised themselves, to school children. One influential supporter of phonetic spelling was Isaac Pitman, the creator of the shorthand method that was wildly popular with reporters and secretaries.

#Spell insurmountable plus#

Plus phonetic spelling would make it easy to pronounce any foreign language, and it would teach English speakers вЂњcorrectвЂќ pronunciation, thus eliminating вЂњprovincialвЂќ and nonstandard dialects. It would make English easier for foreigners to learn, which was important since they predicted English was poised to become the next world language. And there was the insurmountable problem of deciding whose pronunciation would serve as the phonetic standard on which to base the spellings, and then getting everyone to adopt the new spellings.Д«ut the reformers countered that phonetic spelling would cut the time needed to learn to read and write: learn the alphabet and literacy teachers would be all but out of work. There were plenty of objections to these plans вЂ“ theyвЂ™d require massive re-education efforts, along with reprinting everything in the new spelling.

The nineteenth century saw a number of proposals to replace the apparent chaos of English spelling with a rational system in which each letter transcribed a single sound, and each sound was represented by one and only one letter.

Pikard then laid out more reasons for repealing fugitive slave laws. I am veri mug oblijd dat u ssud tink enuf ov min tu ansr it - I trust u wil hav no difikulti in redin dis - u se it is ritn in de Fonetik Alfabet, and if u deturmin a letr in eni plas u deturmin it in evri plas. From the Lincoln Papers in the Library of Congress, Aug.