Spelling reform
Here are entered works dealing with the effort to reform English orthography. Works on orthography, spelling, and spelling reform in languages in general are entered under Language and Languages -- Orthography and spelling. Works dealing with orthography, spelling, and spelling reform in specific languages or groups of languages are entered under the name of the language with subdivision Orthography and spelling, e.g. French language -- Orthography and spelling.
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Broader terms:Used for:- English language -- Spelling reform
- Orthography
- Simplified spelling
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English Spelling and Spelling Reform (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1909), by Thomas R. Lounsbury (multiple formats at archive.org)
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Filed under: English language -- Orthography and spelling- English Spelling and Spelling Reform (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1909), by Thomas R. Lounsbury (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Alphabet; And, Easy Words of One, Two, and Three Syllables (Cobb Toys third series #1; Newark, NJ: B. Olds, 1835), by Lyman Cobb (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue: A Treates, Noe Shorter than Necessarie, for the Schooles (London: Printed for the Early English Text Society by Trübner and Co., 1865), by Alexander Hume, ed. by Henry B. Wheatley
- Dictionary of the British English Spelling System (version 1.1; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2017), by Greg Brooks (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- Dictionary of the British English Spelling System (version 1.1; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2017), by Greg Brooks (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- A Textbook on School Subjects, Drawing and Pedagogics: Pedagogics of Arithmetic; Pedagogics of Grammar; Pedagogics of Geography; Pedagogics of History; Pedagogics of Orthography; With Questions on Each Subject (Scranton: International Textbook Co., c1902), by International Correspondence Schools
- New-World Speller: First Book, for Grades One, Two, and Three (second revision, illustrated; Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY, and Chicago: World Book Co., 1926), by Julia Helen Wohlfarth and Lillian Emily Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
- The American Spelling Book, Containing an Easy Standard of Pronunciation, Being the First Part of a Grammatical Institute of the English Language, To Which is Added an Appendix Containing a Moral Catechism, and a Federal Catechism (Wilmington: Bonsal and Niles, ca. 1802), by Noah Webster (HTML and page images with commentary at merrycoz.org)
- Chaudron's Spelling Book, Carefully Prepared for Family and School Use (Mobile, AL: S. H. Goetzel, 1865), by A. de V. Chaudron
- McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling-Book, Revised Edition (New York et al: John Wiley and Sons, c1879; with transcriber commentary), contrib. by William Holmes McGuffey (Gutenberg text and other formats)
- New-World Speller: Second Book, for Grades Four, Five, and Six (second revision, illustrated; Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY, and Chicago: World Book Co., 1925), by Julia Helen Wohlfarth and Lillian Emily Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
- New-World Speller: Third Book, for Grades Seven and Eight and Advanced Work (revised edition, illustrated; Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY: World Book Co., 1920), by Julia Helen Wohlfarth and Lillian Emily Rogers
- A Spelling Book (new and enlarged edition; New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907), by Georgia Alexander
- The Franklin Primer: or, Lessons in Spelling and Reading, Adapted to the Understandings of Children (1834) (page images at uncg.edu)
- The School Reader: First Book (New York: Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman & Co., c1858), by Charles W. Sanders (page images at Pitt)
- A Plea for The Queen's English: Stray Notes on Speaking and Spelling (10th thousand; London: Strahan; Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Co., 1866), by Henry Alford
- The Queen's English: A Manual of Idiom and Usage (third edition; London: Strahan and Co.; Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Co., 1870), by Henry Alford (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Queen's English: A Manual of Idiom and Usage (seventh edition; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1888), by Henry Alford (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Queen's English: Stray Notes on Speaking and Spelling (London: Strahan and Co.; Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Co., 1864), by Henry Alford (multiple formats at archive.org)
- From Clerks to Corpora: Essays on the English Language Yesterday and Today (festschrift honoring Nils-Lennart Johanneson; Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, c2015), ed. by Philip Shaw, Britt Erman, Gunnel Melchers, and Peter Sundskist (multiple formats with commentary at Stockholm University Press)
- Impenetrability: or, The Proper Habit of English (London: Pub. by L. and V. Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1926), by Robert Graves (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The American Language: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1919), by H. L. Mencken (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The English Language (New York: H. Holt and Co.; London: Williams and Norgate, c1912), by Logan Pearsall Smith (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- Yale Studies in English (partial serial archives)
- What We Really Value: Beyond Rubrics in Teaching and Assessing Writing (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2003), by Bob Broad (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- A Textbook on School Subjects, Drawing and Pedagogics: Penmanship; Vertican Penmansip; Grammar; Punctuation and Capitalization; Double-Entry Bookkeeping; With Questions and Exercises (Scranton: International Textbook Co., c1902), by International Correspondence Schools
- The High School Writing Center: Establishing and Maintaining One (Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, c1989), ed. by Pamela B. Childers (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)
- Composition Studies as a Creative Art: Teaching, Writing, Scholarship, Administration (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1998), by Lynn Z. Bloom (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Community English: A Book of Undertakings for Boys and Girls (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Mildred Buchanan Flagg
- How to Write Clearly: Rules and Exercises on English Composition (author's copyright edition; Boston: Robert Bros., 1883), by Edwin A. Abbott
- A Manual of the Art of Prose Composition, For the Use of Colleges and Schools (Louisville, KY: J. P. Morton and Co., 1867), by John Mitchell Bonnell (page images at HathiTrust)
- Roots in the Sawdust: Writing to Learn Across the Disciplines (c1985), ed. by Anne Ruggles Gere (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)
- Programs and Practices: Writing Across the Secondary School Curriculum (c1994), ed. by Pamela B. Childers, Anne Ruggles Gere, and Art Young (PDF with commentary at Colorado State)
- First Lessons in Composition (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1870), by G. P. Quackenbos
- Primer and Language Lessons in English and Cree, by E. B. Glass, trans. by John McDougall (multiple formats at archive.org)
- First Book in Composition, Applying the Principles of Grammar to the Art of Composing: Also, Giving Full Directions for Punctuation; Especially Designed for the Use of Southern Schools (Raleigh: Branson, Farrar and Co., 1863), by L. Branson
- Lessons in Reading-Writing-Arithmetic, for Special School Work in Georgia (Atlanta: C. P. Byrd, state printer, 1916), by Georgia Department of Education
- Wiring the Writing Center (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1998), ed. by Eric Hobson (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day (reprint; originally printed Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1912), by Walter W. Skeat (Gutenberg text)
- The Englishing of French Words; The Dialectical Words in Blunden's Poems, etc. (Society for Pure English tract 5; 1921), by Brander Matthews and Robert Bridges (Gutenberg text)
- Catchwords and Claptrap (London: L. and V. Woolf, 1926), by Rose Macaulay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (public domain volumes, ca. 1888-1926), ed. by James A. H. Murray, Henry Bradley, William A. Craigie, and C. T. Onions (page images at archive.org and HathiTrust)
- An American Dictionary of the English Language (2 volumes; New York: S. Converse, 1828), by Noah Webster
- An American Dictionary of the English Language (abridged from the quarto edition, revised, with appendix; New York: White and Sheffield, 1841), by Noah Webster, contrib. by John Walker (multiple formats at Google)
- The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (fifth edition) (searchable HTML with commentary at ahdictionary.com)
- Boucher's Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words: A Supplement to the Dictionaries of the English Language, Particularly Those of Dr. Johnson and Dr. Webster (nothing further published after "Blade"; London: Printed for Black, Young, and Young, 1832-1833), by Jonathan Boucher, ed. by Joseph Hunter and Joseph Stevenson, contrib. by J. Odell
- The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia (12 volumes; New York: The Century Co., c1906-1910), ed. by William Dwight Whitney (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Both With Regard to Sound and Meaning: One Main Object of Which is, To Establish a Plain and Permanent Standard of Pronunciation; To Which is Prefixed a Prosodial Grammar (fourth edition, 2 volumes; London: Printed for Charles Dilly et al., 1797), by Thomas Sheridan
- The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English (seventh impression of first edition; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1919), ed. by H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Dictionarium Britannicum, or, A More Compleat Universal Etymological English Dictionary Than Any Extant (London: Printed for T. Cox, 1730), ed. by N. Bailey, contrib. by George Gordon and Philip Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Dictionary of the English Language (sixth edition, two volumes; London: Printed for J. F. And C. Rivington, et al., 1785), by Samuel Johnson
- A Dictionary of the English Language, Explanatory, Pronouncing, Etymological, and Synonymous, With a Copious Appendix (Springfield, MA: G. C. Merriam and Co., 1872), by Noah Webster, Chauncey A. Goodrich, Noah Porter, and William A. Wheeler (page images at MOA)
- The Encyclopaedic Dictionary: A New, and Original Work of Reference to All the Words in the English Language With a Full Account of Their Origin, Meaning, Pronounciation, and Use (7 volumes; London et al.: Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Co., 1879-1888), ed. by Robert Hunter
- Glossographia Anglicana Nova: or, A Dictionary, Interpreting Such Hard Words of Whatever Language, As Are At Present Used in the English Tongue, With Their Etymologies, Definition, &c. (London: Printed for D. Brown, et al., 1707), contrib. by Thomas Blount (page images at HathiTrust)
- Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (free online edition) (searchable HTML at ldoceonline.com)
- Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (current edition, with additional material) (searchable HTML at m-w.com)
- A New Dictionary of the English Language (2 volumes; London: W. Pickering, 1836-1837), by Charles Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
- A New Universal Technological, Etymological, and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language, Embracing All the Terms Used in Science, Literature, and Art (2 volumes; London: C. Routledge and Co., 1852), by John Craig (page images at HathiTrust)
- The New World of Words: or, Universal English Dictionary (6th edition; London: Printed for J. Philips, et al., 1706), ed. by Edward Phillips and John Kersey (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Treasury of Knowledge, and Library of Reference (18th edition; London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848), by Samuel Maunder (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Treasury of Knowledge, and Library of Reference (19th edition; London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851), by Samuel Maunder (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Treasury of Knowledge and Library of Reference (new and revised dition; 3 volumes; New York: C. Childs, 1850), contrib. by Edwin Williams, I. Daniel Rupp, Lyman Cobb, Hugh Moore, and Samuel L. Knapp
- Universal Dictionary of the English Language: A New and Original Work Presenting for Convenient Reference the Orthography, Pronunciation, Meaning, Use, Origin and Development of Every Word in the English Language (4 volumes; New York: P. F. Collier, 1897), ed. by Robert Hunter and Charles Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
- Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (based on the 1913 Merriam-Webster edition)
- searchable HTML at Chicago
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- An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language (new and revised edition; Oxford, UK: At the Clarendon press, ca. 1910), by Walter W. Skeat
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