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...carried. Mr. Dewey employs phonetics with painstaking, sometimes cryptic thoroughness. At the Lake Placid Club, of which he is President, guests are familiar with such items as the following on his bill of fare: "krem of whet," "kofe," "fryd egz," "frut," "kak," "yc krem." In a letter apropos of articles on simple spelling, Mr. Dewey once wrote: "My sugjestion wud be a first articl as long as yu think wize that wud be folod now and then by short one. . . ." In this sentence, the word "long," instead of ending with an "ng," was terminated by a symbol similar in shape...
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