 | Rasmus Rask - Malays (Asian people) - 1821 - 358 pages
...conserving influence, and make for uniformity and fixedness of pronunciation. So loose and indefinite is now the tie between writing and utterance that existing differences of utterance hide themselves under cover of an orthography which fits them all equally well, while others... | |
 | Language and languages - 1876 - 338 pages
...toward a greater uniformity in pronunciation. — Upon this point Whitney says : "So loose and indetinit is now the tie between writing and utterance, that existing differences of utterance hide them* Authorities differ somewhat in these figures. Dr. Thomas Hill places the number... | |
 | Isaac Pitman - Spelling reform - 1878 - 344 pages
...of a phonetic spelling contributing to the alteration and damage of the language, as it is changed, it would exert a conserving influence, and " tend...of pronunciation hide themselves under the cover of a spelling that fits them all equally well. The largest part of our conserving force is spent upon... | |
 | Plea - 1878 - 350 pages
...of a phonetic spelling contributing to the alteration and damage of the language, as it is changed, it would exert a conserving influence, and " tend...fixedness of, pronunciation. So loose and uncertain is nuw the tie between writing and utterance that existing differences of pronunciation. bide themselves... | |
 | Michigan. Department of Public Instruction - Education - 1879 - 254 pages
...debauched by a vicious training that he is capable of regarding an historical spelling as preferable to phonetic spelling ; that he can possibly think it...of pronunciation hide themselves under the cover of au orthography which fits them all equally well. The largest part of our conservative force is spent... | |
 | Science - 1889 - 720 pages
...toward a greater uniformity in pronunciation. — Upon tins point Whitney says : "So loose and indeflnit is now the tie between writing and utterance, that existing differences of utterance hide themselves under cover of an orthografy which fits them all equally, while others spring... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Anthropology - 1889 - 620 pages
...a, greater uniformity in pronunciation. — Upon tliis point Whitney says : "So loose and indefinit is now the tie between writing and utterance, that existing differences of utterance hide themselves under cover of an orthografy which fits them all equally, while others spring... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 706 pages
...conserving influence, and make for uniformity and fixedness of pronunciation. So loose and indefinite is now the tie between writing and utterance, that existing differences of utterance hide themselves under cover of an orthography which fits them all equally well, while others... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Anthropology - 1889 - 620 pages
...toward a greater uniformity in pronunciation. — Upon this point Whitney says : "So loose and indednit is now the tie between writing and utterance, that existing differences of utterance hide themselves under cover of an orthografy which flts them all equally, while others spring... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Commission on Amended Orthography - English language - 1889 - 52 pages
...a greater uniformity in pronunciation. — Upon this point Whitney says : "So loose and indefinite is now the tie between writing and utterance, that existing differences of utterance hide themselves under cover of an orthografy which fits them all equally, while others spring... | |
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So loose and indefinite is now the tie between writing and utterance, that existing differences of utterance hide themselves under cover of an orthografy which fits them all equally, while others spring up uncheckt. No small part of the conservative force... 