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Decalog

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Dec·a·logue or Dec·a·log  (dk-lôg, -lg)
n.
1. Bible The Ten Commandments.
2. A fundamental set of rules having authoritative weight.

[Middle English decalog, from Late Latin decalogus, from Greek dekalogos : deka, ten; see dek in Indo-European roots + logos, word, pronouncement; see leg- in Indo-European roots.]


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In 1898, the American National Education Association began promoting the following list: "tho, altho, thru, thruout, thoro, thoroly, thorofare, program (instead of programme), prolog, catalog, pedagog and decalog.
There is not one solitary fundamental principle of our democratic policy that did not stem directly from the basis moral concepts as embodied in the Decalog [sic] and the ethics of Jesus.
The turning point came in February 1897, when the National Education Association (NEA) resolved that all of its official correspondence and publications would thenceforth use simplified spellings for twelve words: catalog, decalog, demagog, pedagog, prolog, program, tho, altho, thoro, thorofare, thru, and thruout.
 
 
 
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