# English spelling and spelling reform

Author: Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford, 1838-1915

Genre: Category: Language & Communication

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70179

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=English+spelling+and+spelling+reform+Lounsbury&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

It was my fortune in 1906 to be wandering in lands where English is not spoken, when the President of the United States issued his famous order in regard to spelling. Little, therefore, of the comment it occasioned met my eyes, either at the time or long after; little of the clamor it excited reached my ears. But after my return to my own country I had the opportunity to look over no small number of the productions which came out in opposition to it or in criticism of it, whether they appeared in the form of reported interviews with prominent persons, of leaders in newspapers or letters to them, or of elaborate articles in periodicals. Most of these written pieces were anonymous; but some...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/english-spelling-and-spelling-reform-70179/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/english-spelling-and-spelling-reform-70179/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/english-spelling-and-spelling-reform-70179/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/english-spelling-and-spelling-reform-70179/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/english-spelling-and-spelling-reform-70179/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/english-spelling-and-spelling-reform-70179/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/english-spelling-and-spelling-reform-70179/chapters/8/index.md)
- [scene 4.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/english-spelling-and-spelling-reform-70179/chapters/2/index.md)