_English Orthography._--The agricultural newspapers and magazines in the
United States have generally restored the spelling of _plow_ in place of
_plough_, which has crept in since the translation of the Bible into
English.
Could not _cloke_, the old spelling, be also restored, in place of _cloak_,
which has nothing but _oak_ to keep it in countenance; whilst _cloke_ is in
analogy with _smoke_, _poke_, _broke_, &c.?
There are two English words, in pronouncing which not a single letter of
them is sounded; namely _ewe_ (yo!) and _aye_ (I!)