Illiteracy, like all evils, is sometimes a blessing. So thinks the Russian Ministry of Education, at all events. Of late the Ministry took the Russian alphabet in hand, examined it for superfluous members, pruned here, excised there, threw five letters out bodily, published a new, curtailed alphabet which shortens the written Russian language by one-twelfth and makes its spelling "twice as logical." It was pointed out that had not illiteracy abounded in Russia, the Ministry would have encountered the same difficulty faced by the late Theodore Roosevelt
and other advocates of simplified spelling in the U.S. namely, that of making a whole...
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