Note 209 — Chapter XXXIV
Reading edition
To cite a word already used in these pages, there are half a dozen words spelt ko and as many as fourteen spelt kō, but all have a different ideograph. When the prolongation of the educational course by the ideographs is dwelt on, it is wholesome for us to remember Professor Gilbert Murray's declaration that "English spelling entails a loss of one year in the child's school time." Other authorities have considered the loss to be much more.