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Year:
1940
Short description:
British Simplified Spelling Society's 'New Spelling' published
Tags:
history of English
orthography
in Britain
Baugh, A. C. & Cable, T. (1993). A History of the English Language 4th edition. : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group [p.331]
McCrum, R. Cran, W. & MacNeil, R. (1992). The Story of English (2nd edition). London: Faber and Faber [p.42]