Spelling Reform.
The secretary of the spelling reform association reports that, besides The Chicago Tribune and Home Journal, there are two hundred papers in all parts of the country that have adopted, in whole or in part, the modified spelling, and are trying to prepare the minds of readers for a still further change. The rules at present in force are as follows:
1. Omit a from the digraph ea when pronounst as e short, as in bed, helth, etc.
2. Omit silent e after a short vowel, as in hav, giv, defnit, infinit, forbad, etc.
3. Write f for ph in such words as alfabet, fantom, camfor, filosofy, telegraf, etc.
4. When a word ends with a doubl letter, omit the last, as in shal, wil, clif, eg, etc.
5. Change ed to t where it has the sound of t, as in lasht, imprest, fixt, etc.
This sign on a door near the Star Tribune's north entrance dates to the 1940s.
