And he won that argument! Didn't he?

stan

Bob Blakely wrote:

He also argued that "women" should be spelled "wimmen".

Regards,
Bob...
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From: "Mark Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


It wasn't so much as his dictionary as his "American Spelling book"
(later retitled the "Elementary Spelling Book"). Even so, he was
famously capricious with his taste for spelling reform: He actually
argued *for* the British spelling of words ending in "our" instead of
"or", like "colour" and "humour".










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