Protesting against "the levity and lesemajestè" of an editorial in the London Times about the late King George V's spelling, an eminent Briton whose notions are always news wrote a letter to The Thunderer:
You have failed to appreciate . . . the laudable and sensible attempts of our Sovereign's royal father to spelg the English language as it ought to be spelt. . . . The English language cannot be spelt, because there is no English alphabet. We make shift with a Latin alphabet. . . .
Our attempts to make a foreign alphabet of 26 letters do the work of...
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