THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22ND, 1924
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SAILINGS FROM. HONGKONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION"
HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM & "ANTWERP-via Singapore, Colombo, Suez and Port Said.
"PARIS MARU" (Calls at Sedan).
Sunday,
5th Oct
RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-vis Saigon, Singapore,
Colombo, Durban and Capetown.
"MEXICO MARU" "CHICAGO MARU
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BOMBAY via Singapore and Colombo,
"SHUNKO MARU”
"AMON MARU “
BANGKOK Vis SAISON & SINGAPORE.
"KISHU MARUTM
ENGLISH SPELLING.
WEATHER REPORT
September ist at 1600-Pre changes are alight at all reporting stations, expet at all Nagasaki where it has decreased moderately.
The depression is now central to the north of Nagasaki
The anticyclone over China has not develöpect since this morning.
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours onding at 18 hours, Sept. 2at, 0.00 inch. Total since of 7293 inches. January 1st $7.49 inches, against am avunge
The forest for the 24 hear ending at 18 bours, Sept. Pind is as follows
DISTRICT Hongkong to Gap Rock
To judge by our correspondence (says The Times), the letter on the reform of English spelling which we published frora Professu Emery Barnes of Cambridge, and the deputation on the subject to the President of the Board of Education, have aroused much interest. The request nude by the deputation to Mr. Trevelyan, and the second letter which we print from Professor Barnes, together with Mr. Clarke's, of Aberdeen, point to 'no'de- sire among spelling reformers for any great revolution at a single leap, but to n wish, nevertheless, that spelling' may be made easier for schoolchildren by being freed from some of its more glaring in consistencies. No one, we suppose, will depy that there are many inconsistencies in our spelling, or refuse to believe that their removal would be un edurational advantage. The gifficulty, however, be- gins at once when a list of words bas to be drawn up which shall not invalve further inconsistencies or even entharass- nients greater than those already existing. Professur Barnes aud Mr. Clarke plead for a revival of certain seventeenth-cen- tury forms of spelling, the effect of which would be to hiring the written and the Barometer spoken language nearer. Both, it hap-Temperature peus, take the word "gone," and ask Humidity why it should not be spelt gon." Phonetically and philologically there can be an objection, but if a list is made of similar words it soon becomes evident
that no consistent reform can he carried out without introducing fresh confusion. Thus "done and none vianot well be changed into dun and "nan," be. cause those spellings already represent other words. And so it is with every list which we try to draw up in which particular spelling assigned to a parti.
calar sound. because of the creation' of new homonyms.
The late Dr. Henry Bradley proved. in a pamphlet which all spelling reform. ers should digest," that homonyms are not to be multiplied prueter akerssikotem. and one of the advantages of writing op printing is that words of the same sound can be represented differently to the eye. Reform, therefore, in this direction cau- not go very far, and cannot be logiently complete, without obliterating distine- tions which, though phonetically absurd.
Wednesday, 22nd Oct.. Monday, 24th Nov.
Sunday, Saturday,
8th Oct. 20th Oct.
Thursday,
2nd Oct
Friday, 26th Sept. Sunday, 20th Oct.
are
"Calcutta via" Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.
FORECAST S.E. to E winds,
light to moderate:
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STRAITS & CALCÍÍTITA SHANGHAI vis SWATOW
"NAMSANG* Wednesday, 24th Sept., 8 pa.
"WAISHING"
"YUSANG
LEESANG
Eturday
"CREONGSHING* Saturday,
BANGKOK via SWATOW SANDAKAN
"HORSANGK "RINSANG" ·
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fun at Erst, rain
do.
MANILA, via AMOY-
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later
HAIPHONG vis HOIHOW KOBE vis MOJI
MINGSANG"
"LAISANG"
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Formosa Channel. South coast of Chias between)
Hongkong and Lamocks South coast of China between"
Hongkong and Hainan
HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER.
Hongkong Observatory, September 21st
Previous Ou Date Ou Dats
Day st
Wind Direction... Force Weather. Rain M
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at 2 p.m. 6 a.m. $ p.m.
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Hightest open-air Temperature on 20th Lowest open-air Temperature on ist
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HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.
From Sept. 2nd to 28th, 1924. FIGH WATER.
-Month.
Daya of
*WI
Weight
Low WATER.
E'long
Standard
Time.
Height,
ft
3 1
75
E'kong
Standard
Time.
h.
'ft in,
h. m.
Noinferior ligh
5 1 7 584
km 11 23
nor Low Water
0 21 10 36
47
1 2
Taur. 25
7 55. 5
16
797
Satar. 27
7 55
Tacs.m wed. 24m 5 14 1-6
to readers, and especially adult readers, a convenience and a help. As Fri. - 25m spelling can never be an exact phonetic
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"ALPS MARU"
Friday, 28th Sept.
Wednesday, 15th Oct.
NEW YORK via Japan Ports, San Francisco and Panama.
"ANDES MARU”
KEELUNG via Swarow & Amor.
"AMAKUSA MARU”
"KAIJO MARU"
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holds, it is changed and elaborated be yond all recognition) logic will not help San. much; and, though current spelling may he illogical, it would be unwise not to recognize a certain logic even in its. illogicality. Three hundred years ago words may have been written more' ac cording to sourd than they are now, but the evolution of the printed 'or written' language to its present state was not sanatural nor without its practical con- venience for quick readers, whose organ in reading is the eye and not the ear. The refurms," wrote D. Bradley, "that is most imperatively needed is one which will ensure that no two English words that are differently pronounced shall be spelt alike and he was at great pains to distinguish between the function of letters in the service of readers from their possibilities 18 nicans of expressing
sounds,
Dr. Bradley was cactious. Changes of¦ really revolutionary nature appear to be out of the question.. There are ele-| ments in English spelling which no one will desire to alter. The alphabet, for instance, cannot be enlarged; nor must the claims of philology and history be ignored. The words, as Dr. Bradley saw, that can or might be reformed are those which are mainly in oral use. The thou- sands of words taken over by the literary language from Latin and Greek must left alone. Their meaning would not be come any the clearer by an ancholarly disfigurement of their personality. But they make up a very large part of the written. vocabulary, and by their predo- minance differentiate English sharply from other languages-like German- which can be and are spelt much more phonetically. If, therefore, they cannot be touched, only the native element is left to the reformer, and it abounds in homophones which are at present often conveniently distinguished, for the hene, fit of the eye, by ilogical" spelling. For that reason Dr. Bradley thought that English was more unsuited than any Euro- pean language to be written phonetically. The chances seem to be that if such a Commission 19 the deputation to Mr. Trevelyan desired were set to work, pro- vided. that it consisted of scholars with a due respect to the origins of our coin- posite language, and of practical men recognizing the difficulties of launching any but quite easy changes acceptable at once to writers and printers-a class of persons most unwilling to distruct or appear. ludicrous to their readers-it would not be able to recommend any changes which would be of real help to school-children. Important, moreover, as the needs of children may be, other in-, terests equally importist are involved in any proposal to change current spelling. They are those of adults who read, not as beginners spelling out words syllable by syllable, but rapidly with the eye, and scan a page of type not for the sounds which the spoken words convey, but for the ideas which they have learnt by long custom to associate, with groups Jettera
A London contermonger was recently summoned for obstructing the traffic with aberrow of fruit. The policeman gave his evidence, and at the conclusion the coster said. That man's "completely committed perjury as well as he could. No, I don't want to arak im nothink. went into a public-ouse to light my pipe. I come out, an' 'e says, I shall summons you. What for any 1. For stopping a line of traffic," he says. I says,
Where's the line of traffic 1 Why, it's gone ahead now, daye 'e. Then ow could I have stopped it, then "--Dis missed with a caution.
Empress of Australia, due October 1st. Burpreas of Busia due to-day. Kamo Juru (NY.K.), due, September
£3rd. Lycan (Blue Funnel), due October 18th.
enter (Blue Funnel), due October 18th. Tarika Jaru (NY.K.), due to-day. Urestes (Blue Funnel), due October 9th. President Cirerland (P.M.), due to-day. President Hayes (Dollar), due October President McKinley (Admiral-Oriental),
13th.
due to-day.
Precilent Pierer (P.3), due September
27th. President Fan Buren (Dollar), due Sept.
29th.
A new advertising method which, in- cidentally, will disfigure city streets, has been discovered. It consists of a sort of stamping attachment to the wheels of a motor-car. By means of an aniline dye, applied to a tyre on which are moulded letters, an advertisement is printed on. the roadway from the revolving tyre as the car speeds along.
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28th Sept., 10
96th Sept, 10.3.
sith Sept. Now,
27th Sept. Noom.
7th
Septe
49th Sept. 10 M.
9th Sept, me
... Wednesday, 1st Qck, 1 puk.
Saturday, 4th Oct 8 pan Sunday, 5th Oct 8 Wednesday, 6th Oct
Now
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