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srr1live.-A new paper has been con-
menced nt he South, called the PloW
Bor.r on which account some Uf ouf eoteu-
poraries, fncying themselves very astuie,
and endeavoring withal TO be witiys ADVISE
.the editor 10 20 to school, and learn how 20
spell. Instead Of Haioule, We thlnk he IS
deserving Of praise for having the good
sense to speii as he ought, IN contempt Q,
the aTbitnry, absurd aHd.unnatural mole o.
spelling which we have been taught by
English photographers Our language
abounds with glaring inconsistencies, and a
hrse portion Of our words have a proaun-
citation altogether ARTIFICIAL and unnatu-
raj. If p-l-o-d-g.h spells pLow, Of course
e-o-u-g-h spells COW, and If tough spells
ruFr, then c.o-u-g h spells cUFF. Blt, un-
Fortunately such awkward combinations OF
letters spell nothing at aIl-1nd plough
no more spells PIow than It does rLUFF, or
PtoFF. NJ child, or foreigner, without trst
hearing others, could possibly give such


words their usual forced p,onpnciation. A
person might make dictionary, and put
down the letters s-o-d-g-h-u for suN, but no
one would so pronounce It from reading
tie pronunciation must be etaught orally
and so with many classes Of words in. our
language; for instance, what stranger to
our pronunciation would imagine that the
letters d-r-o-u-g-h-t spelt DRowTn-and ii
they did actually spell it, that substituting
az for an would make them spell DRAFT
that i-g-h-t spclt NITE-that w-r-i-gg-h-t
spelt RITE, that t-h-r-o-u g-h, spelt T1IRoo--
or lastly, that that most viilainods combina-
ton Of consonants, p-h-t-h-i-s.i-c.k sPelt
TIsrc? Out upon such barbarous ussocia-
tions! We commend our brother Of the
'ePLow BoY'r for his common sense way OF
spelling, and blush for the stupidity OF his
critics. There are some. hundreds of our
words that require the services of Colonel
Benton to ExpUNGE their superiiuous conso-
nants, and man Of common erudltion to
arrange the letters of other words 50 that
they might spell something naturally.


-. Long Island Farmer.