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 general symbol of reinforced breth-impuls (-), as described above in the paragraf on Syllabication (page 12).

Abbreviations and Signs. Abbreviations are used only for the names of the parts of speech.

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

In illustrativ frases, as under the title-word trim, the title-word, where it occurs in the sense illustrated, is markt by means of a star or asterisk (*) just preceding the word, in order to aid the reader in seeing it or in identifying it.

Spelling Reform. The reformation of spelling presents itself under three modes: simplified spelling, clarified spelling, and fonetic spelling. Simplified spelling and clarified spelling are alike in being but amendments of the current orthografy, while fonetic spelling is a relativly independent system of orthografy based upon pronunciation. All three of these modes of reformd spelling are used to a certain extent in this dictionary.

Simplified Spelling. The current spelling may be simplified to some extent by omission of silent letters, by the amendment of certain glaring irregularities, and so on. This is the method used by the Simplified Spelling Board (1 Madison Avenue, New York) and the Simplified Spelling Society (44 Great Russell Street, London, W. C., England).

Simplified spellings are used in the definitions of this dictionary largely on their merits as media thru which to help the reader easily to grasp the pronunciation of the words. Besides most of the forms listed by the Spelling Board, I have occasionally used forms such as giv, liv, impuls, servis, etc. Where simplified spellings would on any account fail of this object and render the text unduly obscure, their use has often