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Year:
1906
Short description:
Simplified Spelling Board set up
Medium description:
supported by a contribution from Andrew Carneigie. Produced a list of 300 words which had variant spellings and suggested the simpler one.
Tags:
history of English
in the USA
orthography
Baugh, A. C. & Cable, T. (1993). A History of the English Language 4th edition. : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group [p.328]
Crystal, D. (1997). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language: Second Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [p.217]