^84 _ UC-NRLF 5887 I $B 13 Sflfl THE FONETIC PRIMER OFFERING THE UNIVERSAL ALFABET AND THE SCIENCE of SPELLING Si? Charles A. Story £^ "^J -< o o o o PUBLISHED BY ISAAC H. BLANCHARD COMPANY, 268-270 CANAL STREET NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK. U. S. A. LIBRARY OF THE University of California, GIFT OF .\....aX/!).. ■JD.-LjuAx./sm. I98 4 Class ^ ^g'y Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2007 with funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/details/foneticprimeroffOOstorrich Charles A. Story was born in Westchester County, N. Y., in 1837. He was related to the Story family of Massachusetts. He served his country during the War of the Kebellion, under the command of General Grant, rising from Second Lieutenant to Lieutenant Col- onel. He participated in many of the hottest bat- tles of the war, and was wounded at the battle of the wilderness. Since the close of the war he had practiced law in Chicago, and during the more recent years he had discovered and developed the now world-fa- mous Science of Spelling for the school children, which has been so highly commended by the peo- ple of Chicago, and has stood the test of practical experiment so well that Congress is now consider- ing an appropriation of five million dollars from the U. S. Treasury to intj-oduce the Science and make it The American System of Spelling. Major Story died September 26, 1907. THE PUBLISHERS. THE FONETIC PRIMER OFFERING THE UNIVERSAL ALFABET AND THE SCIENCE o/SPELLING 3!p Charles A. Story /r% ^o^ OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PUBLISHED BY ISAAC H. BLANCHARD COMPANY. 268-270 CANAL STREET NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK. U, S. A. COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY CHAHLES A. STORY COPYRIGHT, 1907, BY CHARLES A. STORY PREFACE This book contains the Universal Alfabet and the rules and principles of the Science of Spelling. It is pre- sented to the world as a substitute for all other alfabets and forms of spelling, so that there will eventually be but one universal alfabet and method of spell- ing. In it will be found a table of word- models and syllable-models for spelling all of the words of one syllable and all of the syllables or small parts of longer words that are heard in all languages spoken. It contains all necessary rules for spelling, and these rules are as exact as the rules of arithmetic and as easy to learn as simple addition. It also contains all of the 5,500 words of one syllable that are found in the Eng- lish language, and they follow each other in the order of succession they will have in the new fonetic dictionary when completed. These 5,500 short words are spelled in the new fonetic way, in accordance with the rules of science. The same words are also printed and spelled in the present form, side by side with the new and better way. This arrangement makes the one column an exact and accurate key to the pronunciation of all the words found in the other column, affording a good comparison of the new and per- fect system with the old chaotic spell- ing which has been so long in use. The new and universal system dis- cards all of the silent letters. It is the net result of more than forty years of research, labor, and experiment, during which the system has been tested and found to be accurate and complete in more than forty languages. Inventions usually need a little per- sonal explanation in order that the stu- dent may learn the details more rapidly, but this is the plainest, easiest, and most perfect system to learn and un- derstand. Children should have this system explained to them verbally, but the older student can master it from the fonetic primer. This system can be used as a better method of helping the children to the mastery of the old spelling and in much less time than heretofore. They can master both sys- tems, the new and the old, and save two whole years of time and labor in the school life of every child. Such a sav- ing in the primary education of all children means a saving of one hun- dred millions of dollars yearly in the maintenance of our schools. We could then furnish the child with a still bet- ter education by expending this money for the higher branches of study. Why I should children be compelled to toil I and struggle for 1,200 days in the pub- j lie and private schools in learning a I certain amount of spelling when they can easily accomplish the same result in sixty days ? The author earnestly requests that all who are interested in the science of language shall give their most criti- cal attention to the system here pre- sented. He is confident that philolo- gists will agree that it is founded on correct principles and on rules that can be adhered to invariably, and he is absolutely certain that those eminent scholars who are interested in simpli- fied spelling will recognize in the sys- tem the goal for which they are striv- ing; but which they can scarcely reach, with the present slow processes, by many decades of argument and toil, CHARLES A. STORY. I(i3611 OF UNIVERSAL WORD-MODELS The Author has invented this table of WORD-PATTERNS OF WORD-MODELS fOF Stu- dents to LOOK AT when they are learning to spell ; so that the eye helps the ear in the construction of all words of one syllable. The work of spelling a syllable is ex- actly and precisely the same kind and quality of work that is required in spelling a short word, or a word of one syllable; and this fact being proved and well established, it follows, as a mathematical fact, that the table of word-patterns, or word-models, can also be used by the students to look AT as syllable-patterns or syllable- models when they are spelling words of two, three, four or more syllables. This table of word and syllable models is the net result and consolida- tion of about twenty-two smaller dis- coveries and inventions. Some of these smaller discoveries consisted in finding the limits of sound-combinations that are heard in human speech. 1. It is impossible to spell a word of one syllable with less than one letter, and that one letter must always be A VOWEL OR A compound VOWEL. TMs is the SMALLEST AND LOWEST LIMIT. 2. It is impossible for any human being to pronounce a word of one syllable containing more than seven SOUNDS. Every short word must con- tain SEVEN or LESS THAN SEVEN SOUNDS, and ONE of the seven, or less than seven, must always be a vowel or a compound VOWEL. This is the largest and high- est LIMIT. One sound being the smallest limit, and seven sounds being the largest limit, it follows that all the words of human beings are made up of speech sounds, somewhere between one and seven in number, somewhere between these two limits, inclusive. Every word of one syllable must con- tain ONE vowel, or compound vowel, and no MORE TH\N ONE; and every syllable must contain the same; so that there will always be as many vowels in a word as there are syllables in a word; no more and no less. No human being can, in any word of one syllable, sound more than three consonants before the vowel; and when there are three consonants before the vowel, no human being can sound more than three consonants after the vowel, in the same syllable, so this makes up the highest limit, — three or LESS THAN THREE before the vowel, and three or LESS THAN THREE AFTER the vowel, and never more than a total OF SEVEN. Now between one and seven, inclu- sive, the consonants can be placed on the left or the right of the vowel in just SIXTEEN positions, and no more than sixteen. The arithmetic confirms this assertion. All of the WORDS of one syllable that human beings are capable of pronoun- cing in any language, and all of the syllables in the longer words can be spelled correctly by following the one or the other, or several, of these six- teen models. And this makes the table COMPLETE FOR ALL NATIONS, AND ALL LANGUAGES, FOB ALL TIME. If we let "o" stand for any vowel or every vowel, and "x" stand for any con- sonant or every consonant, the table OF MODELS for Spelling short words or SYLLABLES will be readily understood, and we have only to place the letters after each other, as indicated by the MODEL. 11 1 11 Story's Table of WORD MODELS glish and rt words, ach class, 3on each itimate of lables. or 3r words, ich model 2o li o « and SYLLABLE pi o_ b u MODELS .§s*s^ II s .§5 a for ALL NATIONS ail's !lil 1 1 o 5 25,000 2 2 xo 110 75,000 3 2 ox 55 40,000 4 3 xox 1,170 155,000 5 3 xxo .70 15,000 6 3 oxx 80 10,000 7 4 xxox 751 40,000 8 4 xoxx 1,640 125,000 9 4 xxxo 8 50 10 4 oxxx 17 50 11 5 xxoxx 970 14,400 12 5 xxxox 70 100 13 5 xoxxx 340 250 14 6 xxxoxx 90 100 15 6 xxoxxx 115 40 16 7 xxxoxxx 9 10 Total words of one syllable about 5,500 Total syllables, parts of longer words, about 500,000 This total words of one syllable in- cludes the present tense and past parti- ciples of the verbs and the plurals of the nouns, as well as the original words. STORY'S FONETIC PRIME U THE UNIVERSAL ALFABET (perpendicular tabulation) Every letter in this alfabet is num- bered, and the number never changes. There are fourteen simple vowels, and twenty-eight consonants. Rule. E^° Call the letters by their NEW NAMES. I^l) Rule for naming vowels: E^" The SOUND of any vowel, is the name of that vowel. "^ There is only one vowel sound in these words set opposite to each letter. These words will give to the stu- dent the SOUND and the name wanted. _^ 0. a (D Sg i 1^ f CO 1 o 2 a 3 U 4 a 5 e 6 s 7 I 8 a 9 e 10 u 11 u 12 The five compound vowels that are extensively used in England and America are compounded or amalga- mated as follows :— (0-he=c.) (a-f£=(a.) (a)-fe:=(B.) (o-fa)=ai.) (i+a)=ui.) They are sounded as in the words : 43 C c ice, isle, tie, die, my, high, buy, rye, lie, fine, rhyme, oil, toy, boy, joy, soil, void, noise, boil, foil, coin, quoit. 53 CB (B buoyed, buoys, buoyant, buoy. out, owl, ounce, down, town, noun, house, mouse, found, new, dew, pew, hue, view, cue, glue, news, through. 49 Q 55 CU oi 61 m m There are six short and easy rules for spelling all the words and all the SYLLABLES that are heard in the speech of human beings. Here is rule first: E^'Name each letter in the word, and then pronounce the word; or name each letter in the syllable, and then pronounce the syllable."^ This Rule First can be easily used and applied in spelling about one half of all the short words and sylla- bles heard and spoken in England an-l America. WORDS OF THE FIRST CLASS Let us learn these six letters : First Vowel = O Fourth Vowel = a Eighth Vowel = a Ninth Vowel = Fourteenth Vowel = U Forty-Third Vowel = C Each of these very short words of THE FIRST CLASS is Spelled with ONE letter, after model number one ; and of course that one letter must always be A VOWEL or a compound vowel. Rule : 3;^" When children are learn- ing to spell, place the pattern, or mod- el, where they can all see it. The eye helps the ear.°^ Model Number One. (^^^O^^^ First Class Words. Sound the vowel =0 { ^^^T ^S ^^^ Name the letter =oJ Z ^^i?^u' Spell the word =0^ l^^ ?}A^IT Pronounce the word=0 I ^^ °^ ^P^^^" Sound the vowel Name the letter Spell the word Pronounce the word Sound the vowel Name the letter Spell the word Pronounce the word Sound the vowel Name the letter Spell the word Pronounce the word f Same as the =a I word aye, and =a ! the indefln- =a I ite article "a" =a I when heavily [pronounced. =a ^ ^^Die as the _Q I word awe, in _Q^ the old sys- ^p, j tem of spell- Ling. _0 f Same as the =e word oh, and Sound the vowel : Name the letter : Spell the word Pronounce the word: Sound the vowel Name the letter " Spell the word Pronounce the word Q<{ owe, in the .0 j old system of t spelling. f Same as the _j^ I word " a," or ill! I the indefin- ]|y-^ ite article "|i| " a," when 1 lightly pro- (^ nounced. f Same as the =C I w o r d s "I" =C j and eye and =C 1 aye, in the =C I old system of t spelling. 8 STORY'S FONETIC PRIMER In addition to the five or six very SHORT WORDS OF THE FIRST CLASS here given, there are, in the English and American Unabridged Dictionaries about 25,000 very short syllables, or very small parts of longer words, that are spelled after the very same model, number one. REMARK NUMBER ONE In about ninety-five cases out of every hundred, in spoken language, the indefinite article "a," when standing be- fore a word beginning with a conso- nant, is not pronounced like the fourth vowel a; but much lighter, exactly the sound of vowel number 14; and if we are to spell it as it is pronoOnced, it must be spelled, written and printed with the HALF-VOWEL, the obscure, half- sounded VOWEL, number 14; thus : U man, u boy, u girl, u book, u horse, u bird, u cent, u dollar, u day, u week, u month, u chance, u hurry, u rush, u field, u meadow, u new hat; but when it is ACCENTED, or heavily ebiphasized, it should be spelled, written and printed, with the fourth vowel a. WORDS OF THE SECOND CLASS There are 110 very small words of the second class found in the English and American dictionaries, not count- ing the names of the 25 consonants, found in the perpendicular tabulation of the Alfabet; which would make a total of 135. They are all spelled with TWO letters. The formula pattern or MODEL is XO, which means that the first letter in this class of very small WORDS is always a consonant and the last letter is always a vowel. Until fur- ther notice we will use rule first for spelling the words under the head of science, and have them placed on the left-hand side of the column or the page; and place the old spelling of the same words on the right-hand side, under the head of chaos as follows: Model Number Two. 1;W XO "^ Second Class Words. science Z mo da pa ba qa fa ha sa ra la ma Ma na qa wa ha tE P£ be k£ chaos science chaos pa ba] ah ma day pay (bay I bey gay J fay J fey they say ray lay may May ( nay I neigh yea S way ( weigh hay tea pea be bee 5 key (quay f£ hu he X£ S£ l£ m£ n£ 11£ W£ h£ ta pa ka ja ha xa sa ra la ma jee fee the the she shie see sea re ree lea lee me kne ye we wee he taw paw caw jaw thaw shaw saw raw law maw SCIENCE na ha te de be qe fe he xe se re le me ne we he too dOD boo koo XOD ijoo woo hoo tu tc dc pc be qc fc vc he he •chaos gnaw haw toe tow \ doe } dough \ bow } beau go foe though \ show } shew so sow sew \ roe I row Uo I low mow no know woe \ hoe ^ho to too two do boo coo shoe shoo you woo who to tie Uie ■(dye pie \hy I buy guy fie vie thigh thy SCIENCE CHAOS - istfe sigh rye Uie ^lye my nigh wy J high (hie toy boy coy joy hoy buoy ( bow ( bough cow vow thou sc re Ic mc nc wc he to bo ko jo ho boo bcu kcQ vcu hcu sea rcQ mcu ncu ilcu hcu dm pm km dm Jm fm vm sm rm Im mm nm ijm hm sow row mow now yow how I dew * due pew cue chew Jew feu few view sue rue lieu mew new knew yew ewe hew hue AND SCIENCE OF SPELLING 9 In addition to the 110 very short WORDS of the second class here given, the unabridged dictionaries contain 75,000 to 80,000 very short syllables, that are spelled in the same way and after the same pattern as model num- ber TWO. REMARK NUMBER TWO When the definite article the comes before a word beginning with a vowel, it should be spelled, written and print- ed with the sixth vowel £; thus : He air, he aim, he ice, he ape, he an- vil, h£ apple, h£ Qgg, he edge, he owner, he ode, he idea, he awful, he hour, he earth. But when it comes before a word beginning with a consonant, it should be spelled, written and printed with the fourteenth vowel,— the half- vowel,— the obscure vowel,— the half- sounded VOWEL, thus : — hu boy, hu girl, hu man, hu day, hu pay, hu dime, hu dollar, hu gold, hu silver, hu sun, hu moon, hu foe, hu law, hu book, hu Bible. No other reason need be given for this remark than to state the well-known fact that in spoken language the people nearly all pronounce the word in that way. Let us spell and write and print as we pronounce. REMARK NUMBER THREE The word too, meaning " also," and the adverb too, as in too long, too short, and the numeral and number two, should always be spelled, written and printed tco, with the twelfth vowel co, because they are pronounced that way; but when the "to" means " toward," or when it is a part of the verb, and the other part of the verb begins with a consonant, it should be spelled, writ- ten and printed with the fourteenth VOWEL,— the half vowel,— the obscure VOWEL, — the indefinite vowel, — the half-sounded vowel, thus: — tu be, tu see, tu go, tu do, tu buy, tu die, tu know, tu mow, tu fear, tu shine, tu cry, tu fall, tu run. When the following word, or the other part of the verb, begins with a vowel, the word "to" should be spelled, written and printed with the twelfth vowel oo, thus :— tco answer, tcD add, tcD aim, tcD ache, too eat, tcD own, too owe, too all, too any, too in- vent, too urge, too act. When these words are spoken they are generally sounded or pronounced in that way. WORDS OF THE THIRD CLASS In the English language there are about 55 VERY short words of the third CLASS, not counting the old names of the consonants. Each- one of these lit- tle words is spelled with two letters. The pattern or model is OX, which means that the first letter is always a VOWEL, or a compound vowel, and the last letter is always a consonant. Con- tinue to use RULE FIRST. Model Number Three. [!I^"0X"^ Third Class Words. science chaos science CHAOS od odd ak ache ov of the old Pagan or are on on 1 name at at ad ^of ax ash 1 letter ( air \ heir 1 number ar L39 am am ai age an an as ace On Ann al (ail ^ale up up us us am aim un un ed Ed at \ ate I eight eq ^S^ ei edge ad aid j ere ab Abe er / err science chaos science CHAOS et eat et oat ed each ed S ode ( owed £f Eph £v Eve ek oak ev S eave, \ eve eh ez oath owes ez ease el eel er \ oar \ ore it it id itch en own if if ooz ooze iz ir is ear ur S er, ur, ( ar, yr il ill I inn cd eyed in Ck cs Ike ice ill at ing J ought I aught cz cur ol eyes ire oil out ouch ad af awed off ait Old az awes ar al or S all aiur \ our , I hour } awl ail owl In addition to the 55 very short WORDS of the third class, here given, the student will find in the great diction- aries and vocabularies about 40,000 or 45,000 VERY SHORT SYLLABLES, Or VERY SMALL PARTS OF LONGER WORDS, that 10 STORY'S FONETIC PRIMER are spelled precisely and exactly the SAME, and after the very same model, NUMBER THREE. REMARK NUMBER FOUR Alfabets and scientific systems of spelling must be made for young chil- dren because young children must learn them. No generation of adults ever learned an alf abet or a system of spell- ing. If they did not learn the alfabet and the system of spelling vv^hile they were children, they did not learn them at all. Learning to spell, to write and to read are the proper and legitimate occupations of children. These, col- lectively, form the children's trade, their business, the employment and oc- cupation of their early years at school — the basis — the beginning, the founda- tion of ALL EDUCATION. And since small children must do the work, the tools and materials must be adapted to small hands— must be plain, simple, distinct, and easy for them to understand and light for them to handle. Small children must learn to spell small words first, little, short words of one SYLLABLE, made up with only one, TWO or THREE LETTERS EACH. This Is the dictate of plain common sense, in accord with the laws of nature. The said small, short words must be arranged into classes, or groups, so that when a little child has learned to spell a dozen words of a given class, he can spell all the words of that class in THE same way; and the rules given to the child for him to use in spelling one WORD, must apply to all the words of THE same class. Any plan that fails to accomplish this does not deserve even the name of system ; it is simply chaos. WORDS OF THE FOURTH CLASS We have already learned the use of the first three models, and how to spell three classes of very small words, made up of one or two letters only. We are now about to learn how to use model number four and how to spell all of the eleven hundred and seventy words of the fourth class, which will lead us into the heart of this Science of Spelling. Each and every word of the fourth class is spelled with three letteRwS. We shall here present the entire list of three-letter- words that are heard in our language ; because these short and easy words OPEN the gates of THE SCIENCE OF SPELLING to the student. It will be a light and easy task to master the 1,170 English and American shortWORDS OF THE FOURTH CLASS, and the student will take fresh cour- age when he is told that there are, in the unabridged dictionaries of our lan- guage, about 155,000 syllables— per- haps 160,000 SYLLABLES— that are spelled precisely in the same, exact, easy and correct w\y, on the very same model number four. As there are nineteen vowels and compound vowels used in our language, we will break the long list of fourth- class-words into as many subdivisions, for the convenience of the student. We shall now present the vowels in their serial order, one at a time, and in doing so shall present all the words in the language belonging to the 4th class involving the use of one vowel before passing to those of the 4th class requiring the use of any other vowel. ' The student will soon discover that the INITIAL consonants, standing at the left hand side of each word, are also presented in their serial order, as they are numbered and appear in the table, beginning with number fifteen. The word formula, or word pattern, for all words of the 4th class, is xox; and this formula, or pattern, means that the first letter is always a conso- nant; that the second letter is always a vowel; that there is another consonant after the vowel; and that every word in the class is spelled with just three letters,— no more and no less. In the column headed Science the rules must be followed and the new NAMES of the letters must be used : but in the column marked Chaos the stu- dents will use the old letters, calling them as they do under the system now in use. AND SCIENCE OF SPELLING 11 THE FIRST VOWEL The first vowel represents the sound of o, as in rod, not, lock, doll, pond, rob. In the old system of spell- ing there are eight different ways of writing and printing this sound: o as in not au as in daunt a as in what ua as in guard ea as in heart ou as in hough e as in sergeant ow as in knowledge But, hereafter, the first vowel takes the place of all these, and must be used for that sound whenever and wherever it is heard. One letter for ONE sound; no more and no less. Words of the Fourth Class, with THE First Vowel " o " : science chaos tot tot top top toq tog tor tar torn tom ton ton dot dot dok dock doq dog doi dodge do! doll don don pot pot pod pod pop pop pok pock science poz por pol pom bob bod box bor bom kot kod kop kob kok koq kor CHA pa's par poll palm bob botch bosh bar balm cot cod cop cob cock cog car SCIENCE kom kon qot God qob qox dop dor lot lob loq lor Jon fop fob foq for xot xod xop xok sot sod sop sob sok sol Zor rot rod rob rok Total the first CHAOS calm con got God gob gosh chop char jot job jog jar John fop fob fog far shot shod shop shock sot sod sop sob sock sol Zar rot rod rob rock eighty-five vowel " o." SCIENCE lot lop lok loq loi lol mop mob moz mor Mol not nod nob nok noq nod non ijot lion wod wod wox woz won hot hod hop hok hoq CHAOS lot lop lock log lodge loll mop ' mob ma's mar Moll not knot nod knob knock nog notch non yacht yon wad watch wash was wan hot hod hop hock hough hog short words with THE SECOND VOWEL The SECOND vowel represents the sound of " a " as in bat, lad, pan, ran, rat, have. In the old system that par- ticular sound is written and printed in EIGHT DIFFERENT WAYS. a as in. at ea as in a-e " " rare e " " ai " " plaid ei " " au " " draught ua " " bear where heir guaranty Hereafter the second vowel "a" must be used in the place of all of those old combinations. A trained ear is a safe guide in spelling this long list of short words. Words of the Fourth Class, with THE Second Vowel " a " : xox science CHAOS SCIENCE CHAOS tap tap pall path tab tab pas pass tak tack (pair taq tag par jpare tar { tare I tear (pear pal pal tan tan -pam palm dad dad pan pan dab dab •paq pang dax ' dash bat bat dar dare bad 5 bad ( bade dam \ dam ( damn bak back Dan Dan „baq bag pat pat bad batch pad pad bai badge pap pap bah bath pak pack bus bass pad patch 12 STORrS FOXETIC PR] [MER SCIENCE CHAOS SCIENCE CHAOS SCIENCE CHAOS SCIENCE CHAOS bar = ( bare ( bear Jak . = Jack saq = sang mar = mare laq jag rat rat mal mal bam balm lam jam rap wrap mam mam ban ban fat fat rak rack man man bail bang fad fad raq rag nat gnat kat cat faq fag rah wrath (nap I knap kap cap fai fadge rax rash nap kab cab far S fare {fair rar rare nab nab kaq cag ram ram nak nack iad catch fan fan ran ran naq nag kaf calf faq fang raq rang nax gnash kax cash vat vat lad lad waq wag kar care van van lap lap \ ware } wear kam calm had thatch lak lack war kan can hat that laq lag hat hat qat gat har these lad latch had had qad gad han than laf laugh hak. hack qap gap xad shad lah lath haq hag qab gab xar share lax lash had hatch qaq gag xal shall las lass haf half qax gash xam sham lar lair hav have qas gas sat sat lam lamb hah hath n gang sad sad mat mat hax hash chat sap sap mad mad haz has dap chap sak sack map map har { hare I hair daf chaff saq sag Mak Mack dar chair sav salve mad match ham ham Jap Jap sax sash max mash haq hang lab ^jab Sam Sam mas mass Total one hundred and forty short words, with the second vowel "a". THE THIRD VOWEL The third vowel represents the sound of " u " as in bud, rub, hut, come, sun, one. In the existing method of spell- ing there are six different ways of writing and printing this sound : u as in up oe as in does o as in son ou as in young o-e as in love oo as in blood The third vowel takes the place of all of these and is used to represent that sound in all cases. Words of the Fourth Class, with THE Third Vowel "u": xox SCIENCE tub = tuk tuq tud tuf tun tuq dud dub duk duq duv duh duz CHAOS tub tuck tug touch tough tun ton tongue dud dub duck dug dove doth does SCIENCE dul dum dun pup Puk puq puf pus pun but bud bub buk CHAOS dull dumb done dun pup Puck pug puff pus pun but butt bud bub buck SCIENCE CHAOS SCIENCE CHAOS buq bui buf bus buz bum bun bull kut kup kub kuf kul kum qut qux Gus qui qum qun dub duk dum lut luq lui fui fus fuz fun hud bug budge buff bus buzz bum bun bung cut cup cub cuff cull come gut gush Gus gull gum gun chub chuck chum jut jug judge fudge fuss fuzz fun thud huq = = thug hum thumb hus thus xut shut xuk shuck xuv shove xun shun sup sup sub sub suk suck sud such sun suii rut rub ruq ruf rux rum run ruii luk luq luv lul luq mud som sum son sun sung rut rub rug rough rush rum run wrung rung luck lug love lull lung mud AND SCIENCE OF SPELLING 13 SCIENCE CHAOS SCIENCE CHAOS SCIENCE CHAOS SCIENCE CHAOS nuk muck mul mull num numb hut hut muq mug mum mum nun { none ( nun hub hub mud much nut nut huq hug muf mufie nub nub yuil young hux hush mux mush nui nudge { one I won hul hull mus muss nul null wun hum hum hull hung Total one hundred and five short words, with the third vowel " u.' THE FOURTH VOWEL The fourth vowel stands for the sound " a " as in take, lame, pave, gate, wade, raise. In the system now in use the sound above named is represented in TEN different WAYS. a as in a a-e ai au ay made sail gauge pays e as in elite ee " " melee ea " " great ei " " deign ey " " they Hereafter the fourth vowel, and that vowel only, will stand for this sound. Words of the Fourth Class, with the Fourth Vowel "a": xox SCIENCE chaos SCIENCE CHAOS tap tak tal tam dat Dav daz dal dam dan pat pad pai pav pas paz pal pan bat bad bab bak bah bas tape take tale tail tame date Dave { days ) daze dale dame deign pate paid page pave pace pays \ pale I pail pane pain bate bait bade babe bake bathe base bass ban kat kap kak kai kav kas kal kam kan qat qai qav qaz qal qam qan daf das dan jad Jak jal Jan fat bays baize baz bal Total, one hundred and twenty-two bail bale fad fak fah bane cate cape cake cage cave case kale came cane gait gate gauge gave gaze gale game gain chafe chace chain jade Jake jail gaol Jane fate fete fade fake faith SCIENCE fas faz = fal fam fan vaq vas val van ha'd ha'v ha'l xad xap xak xav xaz xal xam sat sak saj saf sav sal sam san rat rad rap rak raj rav ras raz ral short words CHAOS face phase fays fail fame fane feign vague vase vale veil vail vain vane vein they'd they've they'l shade shape shake shave chaise shale shame sate sake SCIENCE CHAOS ram ran ■{ rein safe save sail sale same sein sane rate raid rayed rape rake rage rave race raise rays raze rail rale with the lat lad lak lav lah las laz lam Ian mat mad mak mas maz mal mam man nad nav naz nal nam yaz Yal wat wad wak wai waf wav wal wan hat hak haz hal fourth vow reign late { laid I layed lake lave lathe lace lays laze lame lane lain mate maid made make mace maize male mail maim main mane neighed \ knave I nave \ neighs / nays nail name yeas Yale ( wait I weight \ wade I weighed wake wage waif wave ways weighs wale wail wane hate haik haze ( hale {hail el -'a." 14 STORY'S FONETIC PRIMER THE FIFTH VOWEL The fifth vowel represents the sound of e as in men, fed, bet, sell, debt, web. In the old method this sound is repre- sented in TWELVE DIFFERENT WAYS . e as in fed a ay ei any said says dead eo as in leopard ie " " friend ue " " guess u " " bury ae " " aesthetic heifer oe oestrum and ea represents the sound more fre- quently than e alone. Now and hereafter, one letter must ALWAYS stand for this sound. Words of the Fourth Class, with THE Fifth Vowel "e": xox science chaos scienc tel tell den ten ten pet det debt pek ded dead peq dek deck pen bet def deaf deh death bed del dell bek den pet peck peg pen bet bed beck science chaos beq beg bel ^bell I belle Ben Ben ken ken qet get qes guess dek check des chess let jet Jef Jeff Jes Jess lel jell lem gem fed fed fed fetch fez fez fel fell fen fen hem them hen then xed shed xe: chef xe shell set set sed said sei sedge Seh Seth seb saith sez says sel sell red \ red I read science chaos rek red ren let led leq lei les met mex mes mel men net Ned nek nel iiet qes iiel wet wed web wei wel wen hed hei hel hem hen wreck wretch wren let led lead leg ledge less met mesh mess mel men net Ned neck knell yet yes yell wet wed wead web wedge well wen head hedge hell hem hen Total seventy-one short words, with t^e fifth vowel " e.' THE SIXTH VOW^EL The sixth vowel stands for the vowel sound heard in the words deed, peep, beef, mean, seat, leaf. In the old meth- od this sound is represented in twelve different ways. e as in me, we e-e ee ea ei 90 eve feel weak seize people ey as in key CE uay pique brief paean phoenix quay Words of the Fourth Class, with the Sixth Vowel "e": science t£k t£q ted t£U teh t£Z tEl XOX CHAOS teak teague teach teeth teethe teas tease t'jal science CHAOS t£m ^ *®a°i ten dtd dtp del dsm teem teen deed deep deal { deem / disme science den P£t pst PEP pEk pEd PES PEZ PEl bEt bEd bEk b£d bef bez bEm bEn CHAOS dean Pete peat peep ( peak j peek ( pique peach \ piece } peace peas peal peel beat beet bead beak beach beech beef bees beam bean science CHAOS kEd keyed k£p keep k£Z { keys ( quays k£l keel kEU keen qES geese dEt cheat dEp cheap ElEk chee £ dEf chief d£Z cheese m Ueet Ueat fEd feed M fief f£Z VEl ll£f h£m kEZ XEt XE,p feel veal thief theme these sheet sheep AND SCIE-XCE OF SPELLING 15 SCIENCE CHAOS SCIENCE CHAOS SCIENCE CHAOS SCIENCE CHAOS XEt sheaf red { read l£S lease n£l kneel xeU sheath I reed l£Z lees W£d weed X£h sheathe rsp reap l£l leal ' W£p weep x£n S£t sheen seat r£k { reek I wreak kn \ lean ( lien W£k \ weak I week S£d ( seed I cede r£d reach ( meat j meet (mete W£V weave r£: reef m£t W£V we've S£p seap r£h wreath ' W£l weal SEk seek r£h wreathe m£d \ mead I meed W£'l we'll S£l siege r£l reel w£n wean S£k seethe r£m ream m£n \ mean / mien h£t heat SES cease l£d leed h£d heed >^ ( sees kp leap n£t neat h£'d he'd / S£Z j seas l£k ( leak n£d ( need ( knead h£p heap n ( seize neek h£V heave \ S£l J seal ( ceil kq league n£p neap h£U heath \ l£d { leach I leech liegG n£U neath h£l (heal heel i seem ( seam n£s niece S£m l£l n£z knees h£'l he'l sen ( seen I scene M \ leaf lliet Total one hundred and ten short Z£l zeal lev leave words, with the SIXTH VOWEL "e". OF THE UNIVERSr OF ^>^L THE SEVENTH VOWEL The SEVENTH VOWEL represents the sound of " i," as in did, lip, win, sick, kill, fear. In the system now in use this sound is still represented in twelve DIFFERENT WAYS. as in did " " sieve " " English " " dear " " forfeit " " been o { oi u ui y e-e m women " tortoise " busy " build " symbol " here Eleven of these methods now disap- pear ; and the old letter " i " now takes the place of all of them. Words OF THE Fourth Class, with THE Seventh Vowel "i":- XOX science CHAOS SCIENCE chaos tit tit dir ( dear / deer tip tip tik tick dil dill tif tiff dim dim tir { tear din din diq ding til till pit pit Tim Tim pip pip tin tin pik pick did did piq pig dip dip pid pitch Dik Dick pih pith diq dig pir J peer ^pier did ditch dif diff pil pill dix dish pin pin dis dis 3it bit ^lENCE CHAOS science CHAC bid bid ^ fit fit bib bib fip fip biq big fib fib bif biff fiq fig bir ( beer ) bier fix fish fiz J phiz I fizz bil bill bin { been |bin fir fear :il fill kit kit Fil Phil kid kid fin fin kip kip Vik Vick kik kick vir veer kih kith vil ville kis kiss vim vim kil Quod m Quad y 4rm Space ♦"> ''^ '3m 0* ^ • • Quad ir JL. J If > 2 \) u Spa ce 3 1 • ~ rat m\ 1 Patent applied for; copyright secured This book was set in types from a pair of these cases, and the typesetter after one hour's practice set the types as rapidly as from the old cases. One of the most important features of this entire Science of Spelling and Inter-Lingual System of Printing is its marvelous simplicity in all of its details. 56 STORY'S FONETIC PRIMER STORY'S RARE CASE OF ALL NATIONS LARGE CAPS SMALL CAPS SMALL LETTERS 1 44 45 i« 47 44 45 46 47 44 45 46 4T 48 50 51 52 54 48 50 - 51 52 54 48 ^50 5, 52 54 56 57 58 59 60 56 57 1 59 60 56 57 58 1 59 60 G2 65 64 65 66 GZ 65 64 165 i 1 66 62 65 64 65 66 Patent applied for; copyright secured FOREIGN LANGUAGES What is the use of spending three OR FOUR YEARS iu learning a foreign language when you can just as easily learn the same foreign language in ONE YEAR — and learn it better ? If the professors, teachers and tutors in our academies, colleges and univers- ities will use the Universal Alfabet and the Science of Spelling in their class-rooms, their classes of students will master the foreign language three OR FOUR TIMES FASTER than they can by any other possible means, because the master can give the exact pronuncia- tion of the foreign word and spell and write it in the new way, so that the learner can hear the word with his EARS and also see the same word with his eyes, written in a way that is absolutely correct and that will help to impress the sounds of the word upon his mind and memory forever —as if the sounds of the word were photo- graphed for his eyes to see. If we wish to travel in foreign lands and be able to converse with the peo- ple who live in those foreign lands, in their own languages, let us begin at once to use the Universal System of spelling, writing and printing that will enable us to master those foreign languages in the shortest possible time and with the least possible outlay of labor and money. Moreover, let us extend a friendly greeting to the alien people from so many far-away countries, who are com- ing to our prosperous shores at the rate of more than a million a year, and offer to them the easiest, cheap- est, shortest and best method of learning our own language, in order that they may meet, mingle and con- verse with our people, and become first-class American citizens in the shortest possible time. With the Uni- versal Alfabet and the Science of Spelling placed in their hands, they will learn more of our language in one YEAR than they can at the present time in three or four years. This will help to unify and harmonize the multi- tude of conflicting habits of thought and shades of previous opinion among our eighty-three "millions of Industrious people. AND SCIENCE OF SPELLING 57 THIS PRIMER IS A SPELLING DICTIONARY All of the 5,800 words of one syllable printed in this book arc arranged by- classes, in the new order of succession, which they will have in the proposed new Fonetic Dictionary, whenever the said dictionary may be printed. Each and every one of the words is placed in its proper location, just where it belongs, and where the student can EASILY FIND IT, by following the new and Universal Alfabetic Order of Succession. When the student has found the FONETIC word, in the left-hand column, he has only to cast his eye over to the right-hand column, to find the "old spellings" of the very same word; so that this little Fonetic Primer becomes at once a Spelling Dictionary for both systems— the new and the old— contain- ing all of the short words — or words of one syllable — in the English and American language. The fonetic column gives the exact pronunciation of the word wanted, and the column of chaos gives the "old spellings" of the same word. The time and labor required in "hunt- ing up" words and "finding" them for the purpose of learning how to spell them are herein greatly reduced. With the aid of this Universal Sys- tem any one can find a word in this book in about one fourth or one fifth of the time he spends in finding the same word in any of the old dictionaries. This is another great saving or gain. When other people begin to use this inter-lingual, inter-national and Uni- versal System of Spelling, they will, each and all of them, use the same alfabet of letters and classify their short words upon the same table of MODELS, and arrange the words in the same new and Universal Order of Suc- cession, where any student can "find the word wanted" in less than one minute of TIME. 58 STORY'S FONETIC PRIMER THE NATION MUST LEAD HU NaXliN MUST LED SCIENCE Hu SiTl OV Xukoqe, wik its tcD mil- qunz OV pgpul, wcod not be se prszum- xas az too adopt and qcoz ku YoonivHrsal Qlfebet and ku Scens ov Speliii in its 6,000 skoolz, far ku qcDd ov-its 400,000 skcol dildren, unles it iz lenuruli under- stood kat al OV k£ ukur qrat sitiz or in- tendiii tu doo ku sam liiri scDn. £vuN ku GnaT STaT ov Ilino kood not liiiik OV adoptiq and iiooziii u betur alf e- bet, and u planur, simplur, Eziur, f astur and betur sistem ov speliq kan ke eld, klumzi, paqun mekud,— kwid it iz ncu kompeld be lari kabit and kustum tu ilflDz,— unles ku stat kod bav sum relc- ubul axuiuruns kat al ov he ukur qrat stats war also qeiii tu beqin ijCDziii ku xartur, simplur, planur, depur and bet- ur wa. It f olez karf er, kat ne siti and ne stat, and ne wur komuiniti, kan ar wil undur- tak too intreduis kis simplest and most qoDsf ul ov al ov ku torn and labur sav- iq diskuvuriz, kat kaz kum tu ku f runt in u Uoizun qirz, unles ku saiikxun aND apRODVUL ov ku NaxuN iz f arst obtand. Hu Grat Rspublik must tak ku farst STep. He Yooncted STaTS ov SImeriku must f urst qivkE pepul sum kcnd ov saqkxun, aprcovul and axmuruns, kat ku f astur dEpur and vastli betur sistem, — aftur Dm TEST oND For TRCUL,— iz Ickli tu b£- kum ku dezun and adopted sistem ov kis qratest ov naxunz. Hwen ku Yoonivasul Sistem is f cnuli adopted,— if it evur kan be adopted,— it must bE dun be u popqulur vet ov al ov aiur 83,000,000 of Qmerikunz, duili rE- karded at ku balut boks. He enli wa in kwid kis qrat naxun kan mak its sarikxun and aprcovul ov kis qrat sistem ereKTiv, must bs be an akt ov konqres, aprepriatiii muni from kn NaxuNUL tre^uri, tu pa al ov ku pr£- limineri ekspensez ov u hare test and and u karful trcul ov ku Yoonivursul Sistem, in ku prezens ov inteliient pEpul, hoD wil b£, and must be, ku fcnul luiez ov its me^urles wurk. Har is ne lo\ik, and ne kind ov TEzuniri kat kan Evad, ar evurUre, ar TEfmt ku ferqeiq statements. Ha ar SOLID az ku HILZ. Hu NaXUN MUST LED. T£AllR. CHAOS The CITY OF Chicago, with its two millions of people, would not be so presumptuous as to adopt and use the Universal Alfabet and the Science of Spelling in its 6,000 schools for the good of its 400,000 school children, unless it is generally understood that all of the other great cities are intend- ing to do the same thing soon. Even the great State of Illinois could not think of adopting and using a better alfabet and a plainer, simpler, easier, faster and better system of spelling, than the old, clumsy, pagan method — which it is now compelled by long habit and custom to use — unless the state could have some reliable assurance that all of the other great states were also going to begin using the shorter, simpler, plainer, cheaper and better way. It follows, therefore, that no city and no state, and no one community can or will undertake to introduce this simplest and most useful of all of the time and labor-saving discover- ies that has come to the front in a thousand years, unless the sanction and approval of the nation is first obtained. The Great Republic must TAKE the first STEP. The United States of America must first give to the people some kind of sanction, approval and assurance that the faster, cheaper and vastly better system— after due test and fair trial —is likely to become the chosen and adopted system of this greatest of nations. When the Universal System is final- ly adopted — if it ever can be adopted — it must be done by a popular vote of all of our 83,000,000 of Americans, duly recorded at the ballot box. The only way in which this great nation can make its sanction and ap- proval of the system effective, must be by an act of congress appropri- ating money from the national treas- ury to pay all of the preliminary expenses of a thorough test and a care- ful trial of the Universal System, in the presence of intelligent people who will be, and must be, the final judges of its measureless worth. There is no logic and no kind of reasoning that can evade or over- throw or refute the foregoing state- ments. They are solid as the hills. The Nation Must Lead. TEACHER. AND SCIENCE OF SPELLING 5P EXAMPLE A PSALM OF LIFE n SOM OV LCF SCIENCE Tel m£ not, in mernf ul numburz, Lcf iz but an empti drtm; Far ku sel iz ded kat slumburz, Qnd liiiiz or not hwot ka S£m. Lcf iz r£ul!— Icf iz urnest! Qnd kii qrav iz not its qel: Dust kcu ort— tOD dust rtturnest, Woz not spekun ov ku sel. Not enioment and not sore, Iz air destind end ar wa; But tcD akt, kat ed tumore Fend us f arkur kan tuda. Ort iz laii, and tern iz f letiii, Qnd cuur horts, ke stait and brav, Stil, Ick muf uld drumz, or bstiii Fmnurel mordez tu ku qrav. In ku wurldzbrad feld ov batul, In ku bivuwak ov lcf, Be not Ick dum, drivun katul, — Be u b£re in ku strcf. Trust ne fmdur, baie'r plezunt! Let ku ded past beri its ded! Qkt— akt in ku livii] prezunt! Hort wikin, and God e'urhed. Lcvz ov qrat men al rsmcnd us We kan mak aiur lcvz sublcm, Qnd, dEportiri, Iev bshcnd us Fotprints on ku sandz ov tcm: — Fotprints, kat parkaps anukur, Saliii e'ur lcf s solum man, U f urlarn and xiprekt brukur, SeIii, xqI tak kort eqen. Let us, ken, b£ up and dcoiii, Wik u kort far eni fat; Stil adEviii, stil pursmiii, Lam tu labur and tu wat. H. W. LoiiFeLe. CHAOS Tell me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream! " For tbe soul is dead tbat slumbers. And things are not what they seem. Life is real! life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest," Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow. Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. Art is long, and Time is fleeting. And our hearts, though stout and brave. Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act,— act in the living Present ! Heart within, and God o'erhead. Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints that perhaps another. Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. H. W. Longfellow. 60 STORY'S FONETIC PRIMER BeRIliL OV SaR JON MGR. Not u drum woz hard, not a f mnurel net, Qz hiz kars tu hu ramport we hurid ; Not u soljiir disdorjd hiz farwel xot, 6'ur ku qrav hwar cuur here w£ berid. We berid him dorkli at ded ov net, Hu sodz wih oiur baunets turniii; Be hu struquliii mconbemz misti let, Qnd cuur lanturn dimM burniii. Ne qoDsles kafin enklezd hiz brest, Not in x£t ar in xrcud we wcund him; But he la lek u warijur takiq hiz rest, Wih hiz morxul klek arcund him. Fm and xart war ku prarz we sed, Qnd we spek not u ward ov sore; But we stedfastii gazd on ku fas ov ku ded- Qnd we biturli hat ov ku more. We hat, az we holed hiz nore bed, Qnd smcDkd dean his lenli pile; Hat ku fe and ku stranjur wod tred e'ur hiz hed. Qnd we for awa on ku bile! Letli ka'l tak ov ku spirit kat's qan, Qnd e'ur hiz keld axes upbrad him, — But litul he'l rek, if ka let him slep on, In ku qrav hwar u Britun haz lad him. But haf ov aiur hevi task woz dun Hwen ku klok struk ke mur far retcuriii; Qnd we hard ku distunt randum qun, Hwid ku f e woz sulenli fcuriii. Sleli and sadli we lad him dain. From ku feld ov hiz fam frex and qeri; We korvd not u Icn, we razd not u sten,— But we left him alen in hiz qleri. Wolf. OF THE "^ UNIVERSITY OF UNIVERSITY OP CALIFORNIA LIBBABT THIS BOOK IS DUE ON THE LAST DATE STAMPED BELOW .OCT 13 19;il LIBRARY dsE DEC 1 1954 JAN 2 Z(|01 30rn-l,'15 YC 00092 bv tiT 1