The Columbian Spelling-Book: Containing the Elements of the English Language; A Classification of the Alphabet; An Easy System of Spelling and Pronunciation; Interspersed With Easy Reading Lessons (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Daniel Crandall

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0267946031 ISBN 13: 9780267946037

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Columbian Spelling-Book: Containing the Elements of the English Language; A Classification of the Alphabet; An Easy System of Spelling and Pronunciation; Interspersed With Easy Reading Lessons

The words labour, honour, ardour, Ste. Retaining the u in the last syllable, is the regular English orthography labor, honor, anior, 8x. The Latin and Iabeur, Itoueur, ardeur, 810. The French. The French may with as much propriety reduce such words to the Latin, by dropping the eu, and inserting the o, as we can by dropping the u. But they ought to retain the eu, and we the u, to distinguish our words from the Latin, and from each other.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0267946031
• ISBN 13: 9780267946037
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 165