 | 1848 - 386 páginas
...that there is such an absence of rule, principle, and analogy in our language, as now written, that it is not to be wondered at that so few learn to read...foreigner, who has not heard them, can be sure of their pronunciation.^' " The IMPORTANCE of the reform is not less apparent than its necessity. Our language... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1848 - 376 páginas
...that there is such an absence of rule, principle, and analogy in our language, as now written, that it is not to be wondered at that so few learn to read...foreigner, who has not heard them, can be sure of their pronunciation. t " The IMPORTANCE of the reform is not less apparent than its necessity. Our language... | |
 | Edward Carney - 1994 - 568 páginas
...were not better calculated to conceal the sentiments of those who used them from all who had not the key, than the state of our spelling is to conceal the true pronunciation of our words, from all except a few well educated natives. (Sheridan 1780: 13) Happily, rather more than... | |
 | 1855 - 640 páginas
...were not better calculated to cuuceal the sentimenta of those who used them from all that had not the key, than the state of our spelling is to conceal the true pronunciation of our words from all except a tew well-educated natives."— Sheridan'! Preface ta hit Pronouncing Dictionary.... | |
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Such is the state of our language,' says Sheridan, a man certainly not prejudiced against his native tongue, ' that the darkest hieroglyphics, or most difficult ciphers that the art of man has hitherto invented, were not better calculated to conceal the... 
