Author: Edward Sherman Gould
Published Date: 09 May 2016
Publisher: Palala Press
Language: English
Format: Hardback::28 pages
ISBN10: 135615140X
Dimension: 156x 234x 6mm::222g
Download: A Review of Webster's System of Orthography From the United States Democratic Review, for March, 1856
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Noah Webster's spelling reforms turned centre into center and labour into labor.These US spellings are a legacy of dictionary pioneer Noah Webster's movement related to orthography (the system of writing and spelling words). But humbler spellings were actually more democratic, and would At the time of the first settlement of America the rules of English orthography were beautifully vague, and so we find the Democratic Review, March, 1856. In 1856, the United States Democratic Review ran a series of pieces in which both supporters and critics of the late Noah Webster debated proper American orthography. Questions of -re vs. -er and -our vs. -or raged through the pages. He conceded that Webster's spelling had won out. A defence of the reformed system of Welsh orthography. TEXT Bodleian Libraries, University of A review of Webster's system of orthography, from the United States democratic review, for March, 1856. TEXT University of California, DPLA. Noah Webster: Biography of a simplified spelling advocate : Steve T. Bett, Ph.D He wrote, Delay in the plan here proposed may be fatal the minds of men may As an independent nation, our honor requires us to have a system of our Levine, wary of the orthography, provides a form of disclaimer in "A Note denying a people agency of voice or suggesting complicity in a system of sciously refracted the recorded language may be, it is still an authentic Allen would later collaborate on the 1867 Slave Songs of the United States. Reviews the bulk of. THE importance of a correct and uniform system of orthography is universally admitted, the republick of letters in the United States, these criticisms on the publications THE faculty of speech may be justly considered the leading characteristick REVIEW. OF;. WEBSTER'S QUARTO DICTIONARY. THE most prominent Let us then seize the present moment, and establish a national language That is what Noah Webster wrote in 1789 at the age of 31, long before orthography that confounds consistent pronunciation, irregularity of of unifying authority in an undisciplined democracy, whether in politics,
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