Common School Spelling Book (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Frances Squire Potter

9780428818920: Common School Spelling Book (Classic Reprint)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0428818927 ISBN 13: 9780428818920

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

Excerpt from Common School Spelling Book

American school children, from the descendants of the early colonists to the little immigrants of today, come from many races. These races do not attach the same sounds to the letters of the English alphabet. But if American chil dren may see in the pages of their first spelling book the usual combinations of English sounds in words, if they are made to feel the strength and beauty and natural growth of these words, they will develop instinctively a kind of language patriotism. They will come to know that the languages of their parents are represented just as truly in the structure of the English language as their races are rep resented in the American people.

These different race-elements in our language have brought with them their conflicting systems of spelling. Nevertheless, in spite of this conflict, the majority of Eng lish words are fairly regular in spelling; that is, they are spelled according to rational principles.

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