The Simplified Spelling Board was an American organization created in 1906 to reform the spelling of the English language, making it simpler and easier...
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the Simplified Spelling Board. Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey Decimal System, wrote published works in simplified spellings and even simplified his...
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was involved in the movement for reform of English spelling as part of the Simplified Spelling Board, of which he was the first treasurer. He was heavily...
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used spellings such as center and color as much as centre and colour. Webster did attempt to introduce some reformed spellings, as did the Simplified Spelling...
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Andrew Carnegie (category English-language spelling reform advocates)
to the movement for spelling reform. His organization, the Simplified Spelling Board, created the Handbook of Simplified Spelling, which was written wholly...
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belong here. See Category:Phonetic alphabets. Spelling reforms are attempts to regularize English spelling either by reducing the number of irregularities...
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Education, The Spelling Reform, No. 7-1880, 1881, p. 25 Henry Gallup Paine, Simplified Spelling Board, Handbook of Simplified Spelling, New York, 1920...
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Hitchings 2005, p. 221 Hitchings 2005, p. 222 Handbook of Simplified Spelling. Simplified Spelling Board, 1920. p. 7 Boswell, James (1791). "The Life of Samuel...
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introduce some reformed spellings, as did the Simplified Spelling Board in the early 20th century, but most were not adopted. Later spelling changes in the UK...
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[citation needed] Harris was one of the 30 founding members of the Simplified Spelling Board, founded in 1906 by Andrew Carnegie to make English easier to...
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in Balboa Park. Gage was one of the 30 founding members of the Simplified Spelling Board, founded in 1906 by Andrew Carnegie to make English easier to...
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Dunn served as treasurer and later Chairman of Trustees of the Simplified Spelling Board. He was the president of the Cooper Union from 1935 to 1951. Gano...
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somewhat broader." Holt served on the Simplified Spelling Board, and was its President and the man to whom the Board's founding benefactor Andrew Carnegie...
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all federal publications use revised spellings of 300 words based on the work of the Simplified Spelling Board. Wister's story lampooned the change with...
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Melvil Dewey (category English-language spelling reform advocates)
His theories of spelling reform (to which end he founded the Spelling Reform Association in 1886 and later the Simplified Spelling Board) found some local...
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magazine that would "corrupt" women. Gilder was a member of the Simplified Spelling Board. He was a leader in the organization of the Citizens' Union, a...
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Modern Language Association, American Dialect Society and the Simplified Spelling Board. During his career at Case Western, he resided in East Cleveland...
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University, the Simplified Spelling Board of America announced partial success in getting dictionary recognition of its alternative spelling of twelve words...
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He was also involved in the simplified spelling movement and was chair of Theodore Roosevelt's Simplified Spelling Board. The University of Michigan gave...
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during 1913. In 1906, he was named the first chairman of the Simplified Spelling Board and served as president of the Modern Language Association of...
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James Pitman (category English-language spelling reform advocates)
Chairman of the Joint Examining Board (between 1935 and 1950) Chairman, Treasurer & committee member of the Simplified Spelling Society Chairman of Council...
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New Brunswick, New Jersey, albeit without a loss of life. The Simplified Spelling Board released its list of 3,300 words that should be reformed. Born:...
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A board game is a type of tabletop game that involves small objects (game pieces) that are placed and moved in particular ways on a specially designed...
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Worcester's Dictionary, served on the executive committee of the Simplified Spelling Board, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society. In 1902...
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board of education and was president of a commission that prepared a new school code for the state, and was a member of the Simplified Spelling Board...
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publications, a simplified form of the system is used to render English versions of Russian names, which typically converts ë to yo, simplifies -iy and -yy...
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whose English names are derived from their Russian spellings. Examples of Russian and Ukrainian spelling differences include: Odessa and Odesa, Kharkov and...
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Danish Language Board. Between 1948 and 2010, the city of Aarhus was officially spelled Århus. However, the city has reverted to the Aa spelling starting 2011...
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Chinese postal romanization (redirect from Postal map spelling)
Republic of China, Washington, DC: United States Board on Geographic Names. "邮政式拼音 Postal-Style Spelling", 中国大百科全书 (in Chinese), Beijing: Encyclopedia of...
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Orthopedic surgery (section Differences in spelling)
Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics (alternative spelling orthopaedics) is the branch of surgery concerned with conditions involving the musculoskeletal...
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