POLLARD'S 25 ADVANCED SPELLER BY REBECCA S. POLLARD ORIGINATOR OF THE SYNTHETIC METHOD TEACHING READING The American Philological Association has recommended the following "Rules for New Spellings": 1. Drop ue at the end of words like dialogue, catalogue, etc., where tre preceding vowel is short. Thus spell demagog, epilog, synagog, etc. 2. Drop final e in such words as definite, infinite, favorite, etc., where the preced ing vowel is short. Thus spell opposit, preterit, hypocrit, requisit, etc. 3. Drop final te in words ike quartette, coquette, cigarette, etc. Thus spell cigaret, roset, epaulet, vedet, gazet, el. 4. Drop final me in word: like programme. Thus spell program, oriflam, gram, etc. 5. Change ph to ƒ in words like phantom, telegraph, phase, etc. Thus spell alfabet, paragraf, filosofy, fonetic, fotograf, etc. 6. Substitute e for the diphthongs œ and œ when they have the sound of that letter. Thus spell eolian, esthetic, diarrhea, subpena, esofagus, atheneum, etc. The National Educational Association has recommended for use in its official documents the following: The International Dictionary has been taken as the standard for pronunciation and spelling in this book, though the above recommendations are cordially approved. The great difficulty in the way of reform in spelling is that most people have been taught to recognize words by their forms only, not by what their letters say. Thus, it would be difficult for them to read such words as thru, gazet, fotograf, filosofy, etc. Children taught by the Pollard Method are prepared to read any spelling governed by phonic law. The letters in a word speak, and the child will get the pronunciation, and hence the meaning, as readily from the spelling thru, with which he is not familiar, as from the spelling through, which he knows; whereas, to a child taught to recognize words from form alone, an unfamiliar symbol, as thru, is not a "sign of an idea." THE PUBLISHERS. Copyright, 1897, by WESTERN PUBLISHING HOUSE. Pol. Adv.8p. 5-1 E-P 8 |