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[By Harold Cox:) Tu is very interesting article on Standardisoi Speech, Mr. St. John Ervine has called public attention to a serious misfortune from which our English language

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namely, the widespread habit of and pronunciation. As ho rightly None of the causes of this trouble is our defective spelling.;

LABOUR-SAVING MACHINES IN MINING:

Miss Mabel L. Matthews,

of the Institution of

The purpose of the present WOMEN ENGINEERS. article la to urge that stops should be promptly taken to establish a strictly scientific alphabet for pure- ly educational purposes-somewhat, on the lines of the alphabet used in ' the great Oxford English Diction-graduate ary to indicate pronunciations. léctrical Engineers, and depart With the aid of such an alphabet mental chief of a big engineering children-And also all teachers rm, addressed the Conference of could be taught to pronounce Women Engineers at Leeds Univer- Rglish correctly, and if such an sity lished na an instrument of educa alphabet wore authoritatively estab tion, the child's attention could be

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declared, was an increase in the in- The oustanding problem, she dustrial output of the country.

In most languages the spelling directed from the outset to pro- Improved social conditions, more of the writton word is a clear in nunciation rather than to spelling and better houses, clothes. furni

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ture, "food, all deponded on the in- eroased Production of wealth: The calculated and deliberata op position of the workers to increased output was due to a misunderstand- Ing of the economic position, a mis- understanding too often fostered and developed by theae whose live- hood was determined by the con- tinued discontent of the working i clas386,

cleation of how that word ought to

Better Pronunciation. be pronounced. In the English In practice, indeed, it would language 16 is quite impossible to probably be found that the quickest trust to spelling as a guide to pro-way to teach reading would be to

with CO.,unciation, Often words spelt in. start

this educational the same way are pronounced quite alphabet, and only to let the child differently, and many of our written pass to the ordinary spelling in the words are "cumbered by the pres later years of school life. If this sence of letters that are not pro-course were adopted the pursuit nounced at all

of the correct pronunciation of Take a few words at random and English" would become a primary compare their spellings and their object in our schools instead of Miss Matthews address was de- pronunciations:-

being at present to a large extent voted principally to an account of have, shave: live, alive; death, neglected. We should thus be able portable electric, tools and of some heath; east, bronst; cough, to free curselves from that eare-recent developments. Coal mining plough, rough, through dough;lessness of speech which is nowIn this country, she said, "had been done, gone, alone; sign signet: tending to degrade our. Innguage. moth, mother aid. said; home, In addition, we should get over tries in regard to the Installation one of the least progressive Indus- come; could, mould; mean, one of the greatest difficultis labour and time saving ap meant word. sword nations, which foreigners have now to en-pliances. The principal"trouble in rations: speak, break; senate.comter when they sat out to lenen the industry was one of output per wedate, ague, league; and so on. English,

man, and there was the greatest How is a child or a foreigner toj Aied with a scientific alphabet scope and need for mechanical alda how how to pronounce these words the foreigner would be able to teach that would increase the productivity when he sees them wristen? Himself how to pronounce English, of labour.

Even in the brief sentence which and we might confidently hope that 1, have just written there are several the result would be

Miss C. Grieft, a metallurgist en- an immense grotesque contrasts of spelling mud extension of English as an inter, ham, in a paper on stainless steel gaged in research work in Birming | pronunciation. In foreigner both national language. Already Brand its place in engineering, ex- thei and the x, though carefully lah possesses great advantages for ploded the popular idea that the intel,, must never be pronounced that purpose. We have practical use of stainless steel lay principally

en the k is silent, and they none of the grammatical com- word is pronounced "ro. though plications from which most fareig hows pronounced "hou"; the winnguages, suffer. We have no written is silent. und werd is gonders for our nouns no var pronounced as if it were spelttina in pur adiectives: no elaba

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ate conjugutions for our verks.) None of the other reading languages) These sire iget a handful of of the world has so simple a grani-valves, and hydraulic pumps were examples of the hopeless confusion mar as English: none has so great among the instances which she in the spelling of our English lan-a flexibility and pone has a mora gave of the advantages of stainless

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word is Not a guide to the spokIt we could only case the task of word. The result is that in fearn-foreigners whe wish to learn to ing English both children and for Espeak our language; as well as eigners have Go Brust to other read it. English would quickly be. methods of guidance, and in many come the kingu franca of the% enses those methods are insu- whole world. cent

There is a further disadvantage of our defective spelling-that, by In curious paradox, just because the spelting of English is so little guide to the pronunciation, the spelling itself has acquired a kind of sacred character of its own. In all schools the child is required to learn to spell, whatever else he may fail to learn. His spelling can be easily asted by any teacher or examiner: pronunciation, as Mr. St. John Ervine has so well shown, is a more delicte matter, and in prac- tice is allowed to slide, Indeed, we have not at present In our English alphabet" enough symbols do give expression to many of the important differences of pronunciu tion which separate good English from bad.

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