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lists of newspapers and periodicals that are using some, at least, of its revised spellings and of colleges that have made them optional, but an inspection of these lists shows that very few publications of any importance have been converted and that most of the great universities still hesitate.^[1] It has, however, greatly reinforced the authority behind many of Webster's spellings, and aided by the Chemical Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the editors of the Journal of the American Medical Association, it has done much to reform scientific orthography. Such forms as gram, cocain, chlorid, anemia and anilin are the products of its influence.^[2]

Its latest list recommends the following changes:

2. When a word begins with æ or œ substitute e: esthetic, medieval, subpena. But retain the diphthong at the end of a word: alumnæ.
3. When bt is pronounced t, drop the silent b: det, dettor, dout.
4. When ceed is final spell it cede: excede, procede, succede.
5. When ch is pronounced like hard c, drop the silent h except before e, i and y: caracter, clorid, corus, cronic, eco, epoc, mecanic, monarc, scolar, scool, stomac, tecnical. But retain architect, chemist, monarchy.
6. When a double consonant appears before a final silent e drop the last two letters: bizar, cigaret, creton, gavot, gazet, giraf, gram, program, quartet, vaudevil.
7. When a word ends with a double consonant substitute a single consonant: ad, bil, bluf, buz, clas, dol, dul, eg, glas, les, los, mes, mis, pas, pres, shal, tel, wil. But retain ll after a long vowel: all, roll. And retain ss when the word has more than one syllable: needless.
8. Drop the final silent e after a consonant preceded by a short stressed vowel: giv, hav, liv.
9. Drop the final silent e in the common words are, gone and were: ar, gon, wer.
10. Drop the final silent e in the unstressed final short syllables ide, ile, me, ise, ite and ive: activ, bromid, definit, determin, practis, hostil.
11. Drop the silent e after lv and rv: involv, twelv, carv, deserv.

others. But most of its literature is devoted to the 12 words and to certain reformed spellings of Webster, already in general use.

1. In April, 1919, it claimed 556 newspapers and periodicals, with a circulation of 18,000,000, and 460 universities, colleges and normal schools.
2. The Standard Dictionary, published in 1906, gave great aid to the movement by listing the 3,500 reformed spellings recommended by the American Philological Association in 1886. The publishers of the Standard are also the publishers of the Literary Digest, the only magazine of large circulation to adopt the Simplified Spelling Board's recommendations to any appreciable extent. It substitutes simple vowels for diphthongs in such words as esthetic and fetus, uses t in place of the usual terminal ed in addrest, affixt, etc., drops the final me and te in words of the programme and cigarette classes, and drops the ue from words of the catalogue class. See Funk & W7agnalls Company Style Card; New York, 1914.