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Boswell (search for this): chapter 9
ndred years ago. Then they would have spelled pie pye and lie lye, and, on the other hand, they would have given rhyme as rime; they would have used the words stoick, classic, topick, comick, critick, publick, all with the final k. Dr. Johnson, in writing his celebrated story Rasselas, gave the name of Imlac to one of his characters purposely, that by ending it with a c he could make it as unlike as possible to an English word, which should always, he says, have the Saxon k added to the c. Boswell, the biographer of Johnson, tells this, and adds, in a note, I hope the authority of the great master of our language will stop that curtailing innovation by which we see critic, public, etc., frequently written instead of critick, publick, etc. This was about a hundred years ago, and now the curtailing innovation has not left one vestige of the precious Saxon k behind it, and you may vainly search all recent London imprints for the word pye as the name of an eatable. Mrs. Stowe was the
1896 AD (search for this): chapter 9
n innovation. The delightful English Roman Catholic author Digby wrote, fifty years ago, that the moderns had found out a new way to spell honor, but no new mode of practising it; and this furnishes a date for this particular reform, although it really dates back much earlier, being mentioned with approval in Pegge's Anecdotes, first published in 1803. In the books of a hundred years ago one might find, without question or misgiving, authour, errour, inferiour, humour, and honour. The last two still hold their own in English books, but not in American; the others have given way in England also. The only word of the kind still retaining the u in most American books is the word Saviour, and this is obviously from a feeling of reverence, like that which leads many excellent persons to pronounce God Gawd, just as Kipling's soldiers pronounce it. In time we shall perhaps learn that true feeling and reverence are not impaired by a simple pronunciation or by a consistent spelling. 1896
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kind with that which dethroned the Anglo-Saxon k. It is only that, as it happens to have made more headway in this country, it is called an American innovation. The delightful English Roman Catholic author Digby wrote, fifty years ago, that the moderns had found out a new way to spell honor, but no new mode of practising it; and this furnishes a date for this particular reform, although it really dates back much earlier, being mentioned with approval in Pegge's Anecdotes, first published in 1803. In the books of a hundred years ago one might find, without question or misgiving, authour, errour, inferiour, humour, and honour. The last two still hold their own in English books, but not in American; the others have given way in England also. The only word of the kind still retaining the u in most American books is the word Saviour, and this is obviously from a feeling of reverence, like that which leads many excellent persons to pronounce God Gawd, just as Kipling's soldiers pronounc
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