He was president of both the New York Institute of Accounts and the Union Dime Savings Bank ( which later became the reform of English spelling as part of the Simplified Spelling Board, of which he was the first treasurer.
32.
Although he ultimately had to abandon Ben Franklin's idea of changing the spelling of " tongue " to " tung " and women to " wimmen, " the lexicographer did prevail with many simplified spellings that Americans use to this day.
33.
Theobald Stapleton's 1639 catechism was printed in a Roman type alphabet, and also introduced simplified spellings such as " su?" for " suidhe " and " uaf�s " for " uathbh�s ", though these did not become standard for another 300 years.
34.
In " Shakspere as a Playwright " ( Scribner's, 1913 ), Brander Matthews, a professor of dramatic literature at Columbia University who deliberately shortened the playwright's name as part of his advocacy of simplified spelling, says " Titus " was a smash by Elizabethan standards.
35.
Dawson rejects the possibility of it being used for this purpose, claiming that it will instead be useful to " contributors to the'Poets'Corner'or writer of humorous verse ", " the phonetician ", " the enthusiast for some new system of Simplified Spelling ", and solvers of " Acrostics ".
36.
This obviously contradicts important objectives of the EU member states like " making Europe the most competitive knowledge-based society in the world, " " free movement of knowledge, researchers, and technology, " etc . But common European language based on reformed English simplified spelling and grammar would be an excellent choice.
37.
The educational institutes with which he was involved, often as president or chairman, included the British and Foreign School Society, the British Association for Commercial and Industrial Education, the National Association for the Advancement of Education for Commerce, the Committee of the Simplified Spelling Society and the Initial Teaching Alphabet Foundation.
38.
On March 13, 1906, " The New York Times " editorialized in support of the Simplified Spelling Board's efforts, noting that 90 % of English words are " fairly well spelled ", but that " a vast improvement could be effected by reducing to some sort of regularity the much-used tenth that makes most of the trouble ".
39.
Holt served on the Simplified Spelling Board, and was its President and the man to whom the Board's founding benefactor Andrew Carnegie addressed his 25 February 1915 letter expressing dissatisfaction with the progress of the board, saying of the board that " a more useless body of men never came into association, judging from the effects they produce ."
