" Building on
what I already know perfectly well, I master this word with the very
slightest effort. If we can build up a system which will serve the
memory by way of association, so that the slight effort that can be
given in ordinary reading will serve to fix a word more or less fully,
we can soon acquire a marvellous power in the accurate spelling of words.
Again: In a spelling-book before me I see lists of words ending in _ise,
ize,_ and _yse,_ all mixed together with no distinction. The arrangement
suggests memorizing every word in the language ending with either of these
terminations, and until we have memorized any particular word we have no
means of knowing what the termination is. If, however, we are taught that
_ize_ is the common ending, that _ise_ is the ending of only thirty-one
words, and _yse_ of only three or four, we reduce our task enormously and
aid the memory in acquiring the few exceptions. When we come to
_franchise_ in reading we reflect rapidly, "Another of those verbs in
_ise_!" or to _paralyse,_ "One of those very few verbs in _yse_!" We give
no thought whatever to all the verbs ending in _ize,_ and so save so much
energy for other acquirements.
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