Spelling reform
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Nouvelle m�ethode pour apprendre a bien lire et a bien orthographier . En deux parties: la pr�emi�ere regarde les commen�cans, & les conduit graduellement, d'une Maniere fort aisee, de la Connoissance des simples Lettres de L'Alphabet, a la Lecture des Mots les plus longs & les plus disticiles. La seconde est pour ceux qui savent lire. Elle comprend les Regles necessaires pour les perfectionner dans la Lecture & dans L'Orthographe, & traite de la Division des Syllabes, de la Ponctuation, des Lettres Capitales, de L'Elision, des Accens, &c. a la fin de laquelle on a mis un Recueil des Mots qu'on prononce de meme, ou fort approchant; mais qui, ecrits differemment, ont tout un autre sens, &c. Pour l'usage de S. A. R. Mme la Princesse Louise, Reine de Danemarc. Par Jean Palairet, Ci-Devant Precepteur pour la Langue Francoise, & de L. A. S. Monseigneur le Duc de Cumberland, Madame la Princesse Marie, & Madame la Princesse Louise.
Palairet, Jean, 1697-1774.Date: [1780?]- E-books
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Forty years' correspondence between geniusses ov boath sexes, and James Elphinston in six pocket-vollumes: foar ov oridginal letters, two' ov poetry.
Elphinston, James, 1721-1809.Date: 1791- E-books
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Dissertations on the English language with notes, historical and critical, to which is added, by way of appendix, an essay on a reformed mode of spelling, with Dr. Franklin's arguments on that subject. By Noah Webster, Jun. Esquire. [Two lines in Latin from Tacitus].
Webster, Noah, 1758-1843.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]
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Cadmus: or, a treatise on the elements of written language, illustrating, by a philosophical division of speech, the power of each character, thereby mutually fixing the orthography and orthoepy. With an essay on the mode of teaching the surd or deaf, and consequently dumb, to speak / by William Thornton.
William ThorntonDate: 1793- E-books
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The Columbian alphabet . Being an attempt to new model the English alphabet, in such manner as to mark every simple sound by an appropriate character, thereby rendering the spelling and pronunciation more determinate and correct, and the art of reading and writing more easily attainable. By James Ewing.
Ewing, James, 1744-1823.Date: M,DCC,XCVIII. [1798]