Pure phonography provides one sign, and one only, for each sound in the language, and represents each sound invariably by its appropriate sign. When a person has thoroughly learned the characters employed, he should be able to write any word which he can pronounce. If the word is, for instance, know, he hears two sounds, and writes (joined in writing). If the word is may, he writes etc

Such being the simplicity of phonetic, of purely phonographic orthography, it is only necessary to guard the student against errors that experience has shown to be the natural result of the use of our common orthography, whose inconsistencies are detailed in the preceding chapter.