Mark Twain Quote
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 5:30 am
Hey guys, my brother-in-law is an English teacher-in-training. He really loves "A Plan for the Improvement of Spelling in the English Language" by Mark Twain, so I thought for Christmas I would stitch a nice little pattern up for him with it, but I'm having some trouble finding an alphabet to use.
I'd like the font to be elegant, but it needs to be as easy to read as possible, because the quote sure isn't after a point. If anyone has a nice little border, maybe something with books, that would be awesome too. Here's the quote:
I'd like the font to be elegant, but it needs to be as easy to read as possible, because the quote sure isn't after a point. If anyone has a nice little border, maybe something with books, that would be awesome too. Here's the quote:
I really appreciate any help I can get, I've never really done any patterns with letters before so I'm a little lost. Thank you!For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.
Generally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeiniing voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x"— bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez —tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivili.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
"A Plan for the Improvement of Spelling in the English Language" - Mark Twain