Bund für vereinfachte rechtschreibung (BVR)
Handbook of Simplified Spelling
- autor
- Paine, Henry Gallup
- titel
- Handbook of Simplified Spelling.
- untertitel
- Written and Compiled under the Direction of the Filology Committee of the Simplified Spelling Board.
- herausgeber
- Simplified Spelling Board
- ort
- New York
- datum
- ausstattung, umfang
- 138 s.
- schrift, ortografie
- leicht vereinfachte englische ortografie
- digitalisate
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eu.archive.org (Google)
en.wikisource.org (Microsoft)
- umschlag

Inhaltsverzeichnis
PART L English Spelling and the Movement to Improve It
| Spelling Difficulties | 1 |
| Early Spelling Reformers | 4 |
| 19th Century Spelling Reformers | 9 |
| Simplified Spelling Board Organized | 15 |
| Statement of Principles | 18 |
| Report of Progress | 20 |
| Membership of Board | 29 |
PART 2. The Case for Simplified Spelling
| Introduction | 1 |
| Reasons for Simplifying | 1 |
| Ansers to Objections | 25 |
PART 3. Rules and Dictionary List
| Introduction | 1 |
| Rules for Simplified Spelling | 5 |
| Dictionary List | 11 |
Weitere zwischentitel
Teil 1
| Spelling, Its True Function | 1 |
| Anomalies of English Spelling | 1 |
| Like Chinese | 2 |
| English Spelling Originally Fonetic | 3 |
| Invention of Printing, Effect on Spelling | 3 |
| Printers Disagree | 4 |
| Early Spelling Reformers | 4 |
| Classical Influences | 5 |
| Unsounded and Unsound | 6 |
| Johnson’s Dictionary Blocks Progress | 7 |
| Ineffectiv Protests | 8 |
| Benjamin Franklin Urges Reform | 8 |
| Noah Webster Carries Out Reforms | 9 |
| Dictionary Editors for Simpler Spelling | 9 |
| Filologists Favor Spelling Reform | 10 |
| Fonetic Spelling Reformers | 10 |
| Unsuccessful Experimenters | 11 |
| American Filologists Take Action | 12 |
| British Teachers and Filologists Organize | 13 |
| N. E. A. Adopts 1-2 Words | 14 |
| Simplified Spelling Board Continues the Movement | 15 |
| Advizory Council | 15 |
| Purpose of the Board | 16 |
| Not Radical or Revolutionary | 17 |
| Gradual and Progressiv | 17 |
| Principles Adopted | 18 |
| Outline of Program | 19 |
| Stedy Progress Toward the Goal | 19 |
| Activities of the Board | 20 |
| Influential Support Enlisted | 21 |
| General Progress | 22 |
| Simplified Spelling in Great Britain | 23 |
| S. S. S. Makes Rapid Hedway | 23 |
| International Conferences | 24 |
| Imperial Education Conference | 24 |
| Petition for an Imperial Commission | 25 |
| Aggressiv Campains in America | 25 |
| Universities, Colleges, and Normal Scools | 25 |
| National Education Association | 26 |
| Newspapers and Magazines | 27 |
| Handbook of Simplified Spelling | 28 |
| A Patriotic Service | 29 |
Teil 2
| Scope of the Handbook | 1 |
| Choice of Methods | 1 |
| Fonetic Goal | 2 |
| Reasons for Gradual Approach | 2 |
| The Customary Method | 3 |
| Acceleration Possible | 3 |
| Practical Considerations | 4 |
| The Thin Edge of the Wedge | 4 |
| Policy of the Board | 5 |
| Illustrations of Policy | 5 |
| Silent Letters as Diacritics | 6 |
| Not Inconsistent | 6 |
| More Correct Sientifically and Historically | 7 |
| Make It Easier to Spel Correctly | 7 |
| One Final Rule for Spelling | 8 |
| An Invaluable Record | 9 |
| Talking “by Ear” | 9 |
| Slovenly Speech Due to Present Spelling | 10 |
| Better Spelling, Better Speech | 10 |
| Spelling and Education | 11 |
| Reason in Children | 11 |
| Unreason in Spelling | 12 |
| Distrusts His Own Reason | 12 |
| Atrofy of Logical Faculties | 13 |
| False Value Placed on Spelling Ability | 13 |
| Reasonable Spelling of Other Languages | 14 |
| Put the Blame Where It Belongs | 15 |
| Demand Better Spelling | 15 |
| Would Save Valuable Time in Education | 16 |
| Future Benefits the Criterion | 17 |
| No Spelling Books in Spain and Italy | 17 |
| Fonetic Approximation with Present Alfabet | 18 |
| Bad Spelling Costs Good Dollars | 18 |
| Utilization of Savings | 19 |
| Waste of Nervous Energy | 19 |
| Words Wil Be Shorter | 20 |
| Responsibility of Leadership | 22 |
| Wil Aid Americanization | 22 |
| Illiteracy Due to Difficult Spelling | 23 |
| English as a “World Language” | 23 |
| Failure, of Artificial Languages | 24 |
| Why English Has Faild | 24 |
| Handicapt by Its Spelling | 25 |
| ANSERS TO OBJECTIONS | |
| The Language Is Safe | 25 |
| “Board Lacks Authority” | 26 |
| Not Good Emu for Anybody | 26 |
| Do These Remember HOW Hard It Was? | 26 |
| Homonims | 26 |
| “Too Much Trouble” | 28 |
| All Reforms Take Effort | 28 |
| Wil Not Make Present Books Unreadable | 29 |
| Past Literature Printed in Present Spelling | 29 |
| Wil Not Ad to Present “Confusion” | 30 |
| No “Standard” Spelling | 31 |
| Merely a Bad Old Fashion | 31 |
| The Real Confusion | 32 |
| “Artificial” Changes | 32 |
| Basis of All Human Progress | 32 |
| The “Natural” Changes | 33 |
| The “Etimological” Bugaboo | 33 |
| Interesting to Few | 34 |
| Present Meaning Important | 34 |
| Etirnologists Advocate Simpler Spelling | 35 |
| The “Esthetic” Objection | 35 |
| Words Hav No Intrinsic Beauty | 36 |
| Ghost and Gost | 36 |
| A Dutch Superfluity | 37 |
| “Ugliness” Merely Strangeness | 37 |
| The Good of the Many | 38 |
| “I Don’t Like It” | 38 |
| “Piece-meal” Policy | 39 |
| Cutting Off the Dog’s Tail by Inches | 39 |
Teil 3
| Scope of the Handbook | 1 |
| Plan of Revizion and Selection | 1 |
| Importance of Example | 2 |
| Concentration on Present List | 2 |
| Later Steps | 3 |
| The Long Vowels and the Difthongs | 3 |
| Freedom of Action | 4 |
Auszüge (teil 1)
S. 1
Spelling, Its True Function
Spelling was invented by man and, like other human inventions, is capable of development and improvement by man in the direction of simplicity, economy, and efficiency. Its true function is to represent as accurately as possible by means of simbols (letters) the sounds of the spoken (i.e. the living) language, and thus incidentally to record its history. Its province is not, as is often mistakenly supposed, to indicate the derivations of words from sources that ar inaccessible except to the learned, or to perpetuate the etimologic gesses of the partly learned.
Rechtschreibung, ihre wahre funktion
Die rechtschreibung wurde vom menschen erfunden und kann, wie andere menschliche erfindungen, vom menschen im sinne von einfachheit, ökonomie und effizienz weiterentwickelt und verbessert werden. Ihre wahre funktion besteht darin, die laute der gesprochenen (d. h. der lebendigen) sprache so genau wie möglich durch symbole (buchstaben) darzustellen und so nebenbei ihre geschichte festzuhalten. Ihre aufgabe ist es nicht, wie oft fälschlicherweise angenommen wird, die herkunft von wörtern aus quellen anzugeben, die nur gelehrten zugänglich sind, oder die etymologischen vermutungen von halbwissenden zu verewigen.
S. 3f.
English Spelling Originally Fonetic
English spelling was at first practically fonetic, like the spelling of Latin, Spanish, Italian, Polish, and most other languages, and changed as pronunciation changed. In its case, however, various causes combined to interfere with this orderly process. Among them wer the variations in the early dialects, the different spelling sistems of the Norman conquerors, the later different spelling sistem of the imported Dutch printers, the bungling attempts during the Renaissance to make our spelling "etimological," and the continual ingrafting of words from other living tungs in their f oren spellings - spellings that they retaind with slight modifications after their pronunciation had greatly changed in English speech.
English writers before the invention of printing, and for some time afterward, largely f ollowd their own notions in rega5d to spelling, but the general aim was to indicate the pronunciation of the spoken word; and it is possible for scolars to determin with a fair degree of accuracy how English was pronounst at different periods in those days.
Englische rechtschreibung, ursprünglich fonetisch
Die englische rechtschreibung war anfangs, ähnlich wie die rechtschreibung des lateinischen, spanischen, italienischen, polnischen und der meisten anderen sprachen, praktisch fonetisch und veränderte sich mit der aussprache. Im falle des englischen wirkten jedoch verschiedene faktoren zusammen, die diesen geordneten prozess störten. Dazu gehörten die variationen in den frühen dialekten, die unterschiedlichen rechtschreibsysteme der normannischen eroberer, das spätere abweichende rechtschreibsystem der importierten niederländischen drucker, die ungeschickten versuche während der renaissance, unsere rechtschreibung „etymologisch“ zu gestalten, und die ständige übernahme von wörtern aus anderen lebenden sprachen in deren ausländischen schreibweisen – schreibweisen, die sie mit leichten abwandlungen beibehielten, nachdem sich ihre aussprache im gesprochenen englisch stark verändert hatte.
Englische schriftsteller vor der erfindung des buchdrucks und noch einige zeit danach folgten weitgehend ihren eigenen vorstellungen in bezug auf die rechtschreibung, doch das allgemeine ziel war, die aussprache des gesprochenen wortes wiederzugeben; und es ist wissenschaftlern möglich, mit recht hoher genauigkeit zu bestimmen, wie englisch zu verschiedenen zeiten ausgesprochen wurde.
Invention of Printing, Effect on Spelling
With the invention of printing, however, English spelling began to cristalize into more or les fixt forms. This took place gradually thru the action of the "chapels", or printing houses, in selecting from the current spellings of a given word the one that most pleasd the fancy of the master printer, and adopting it as the "office stile". Unfortunately," the earliest printers of English wer nativs of Holland, who, with far too little knowledge of English or of its proper pronunciation to fit them to be arbiters of English spelling, nevertheless changed the forms of many words to conform with their Dutch habits of orthografy.
Erfindung des buchdrucks, auswirkungen auf die rechtschreibung
Mit der erfindung des buchdrucks begann sich die englische rechtschreibung jedoch in mehr oder weniger feste formen zu verfestigen. Dies geschah allmählich durch die druckereien, die unter den gängigen schreibweisen eines wortes diejenige auswählten, die dem druckermeister am besten gefiel, und diese als standardschreibweise einführten. Unglücklicherweise waren die ersten drucker englischer texte holländer, die, obwohl sie viel zu wenig englisch und dessen korrekte aussprache kannten, um als hüter der englischen rechtschreibung zu fungieren, dennoch die formen vieler wörter ihren niederländischen rechtschreibgewohnheiten anpassten.