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Year:
1754
Short description:
Lord Chesterfield's letter to The World
Medium description:
Lord Chesterfield's letter to The World in which he supports Samuel Johnson as the best person to fix English orthography
Tags:
history of English
orthography
Crystal, David (2012). Spell It Out: The Singular Story of English Spelling. London: Profile Books Ltd [p.189]
Crystal, David (2005). The Stories of English. London: Penguin [p.413]