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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)
A tract on the present state of English pronunciation (Clarendon press, 1913), by Robert Seymour Bridges (page images at HathiTrust)
Something new, comprising a new and perfect alphabet containing 40 distinct characters, calculated to illustrate all the various sounds of the human voice ... designed also to facilitate the acquisition of any foreign language ... ([the author], 1833), by Michael H. Barton (page images at HathiTrust)
Propriety ascertained in her picture; or, Inglish speech and spelling rendered mutual guides. (Printed by J. Walter, 1787), by James Elphinston (page images at HathiTrust)
Ryt Ryting: the urgency of spelling reform. (R. W. Shields, 1960), by Clarence Hotson (page images at HathiTrust)
Collection on simplified spelling. ([Ann Arbor, Mich., 1901), by Clarence Linton Meader (page images at HathiTrust)
Max Müller on spelling ... (I. Pitman & sons, 1894), by F. Max Müller (page images at HathiTrust)
The fonetic primer offering the universal alfabet and the science of spelling (Isaac H. Blanchard, 1907), by Charles Augustus Story (page images at HathiTrust)
A fonetic furst redur, printed in the alfabet and speling ov the Speling reform asoshiashun. (Van Antwerp, Bragg & co., 1878), by Thomas Rhys Vickroy (page images at HathiTrust)
Peetickay. An essay towards the abolition of spelling. Being a sequel to "Some questions of phonetic theory," part I., 1916. (W. Heffer & sons, ltd., 1920), by W. Perrett (page images at HathiTrust)
What is good English? and other essays (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1899), by Harry Thurston Peck (page images at HathiTrust)
Spelling reform : from an educational point of view (Macmillan and co., 1878), by J. H. Gladstone (page images at HathiTrust)
World-English : the universal language (N.D.C. Hodges, 1888), by Alexander Melville Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
Journalism versus art (A. A. Knopf, 1916), by Max Eastman (page images at HathiTrust)
Parts of speech; essays on English (C. Scribner's sons, 1901), by Brander Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
Apropos of spelling reform (The Bradly-White co., 1906), by F. Sturges Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
A plea for phonetic spelling, or, The necessity of orthographic reform. (F. Pitman, 1848), by Alexander John Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
Simplified spelling ... (The Simplified spelling society, 1911), by Simplified spelling society (page images at HathiTrust)
The problem of spelling reform ([s.n., 1906), by Walter W. Skeat (page images at HathiTrust)
Our accused spelling what to do with it. (E. O. Vaile, 1901), by Edwin Orlando Vaile (page images at HathiTrust)
A dictionary of simplified spelling (Funk & Wagnalls company, 1915), by Frank H. Vizetelly (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Relativ frequency of English speech sounds (Harvard University Press; [etc., etc.], 1923), by Godfrey Dewey (page images at HathiTrust)
A plea for spelling reform. (F. Pitman; [etc., etc.], 1878), by Isaac Pitman (page images at HathiTrust)
Spelling : a magazine devoted to the simplification of English orthografy (Library Bureau, 1887), by Spelling Reform Association (page images at HathiTrust)
The Deseret first book ([Salt Lake City?, 1868), by University of Utah (page images at HathiTrust)
A phonetic dictionary of the English language (C. Meyer (G. Prior);, 1913), by H. Michaelis and Daniel Jones (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
On the relations between spoken and written language with special reference to English (H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1913), by Henry Bradley (page images at HathiTrust)
On the relations between spoken and written language with special reference to English (Clarendon press, 1919), by Henry Bradley (page images at HathiTrust)
On the relations between spoken and written language, with special reference to English. (Clarendon Press, 1919), by Henry Bradley (page images at HathiTrust)
English spelling made easy for the world. ([New York, 1959), by Frank Charles Laubach (page images at HathiTrust)
De recta et emendata linguae anglicae scriptione dialogus (1568) hrsg. (M. Niemeyer, 1913), by Thomas Smith, Otto Deibel, and Kaiserl. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Magazine, or Animadversions on the English spelling (1703) (William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1958), by John White, G. W., and David Abercrombie (page images at HathiTrust)
The opening address before the International convention for the amendment of English orthography, at Philadelphia, August 15th, 1876 ([Philadelphia, 1876), by Francis Andrew March (page images at HathiTrust)
[Pamphlets in philology and the humanities. Vol. 18] (s.n., 1861), by Fidelino de Figueiredo, Thomas Ernest Rankin, John Preston Hoskins, Edward Thomas Owen, Thomas E. Latimer, Calvin Brainerd Cady, Richard Teller Crane, Virgil Everett Dickson, Thomas Henry Briggs, Elmer Edgar Stoll, Elizabeth Bryant Merrill, Poultney Bigelow, Julian Proctor, James Finch Royster, Alfred H. Lloyd, Walter Rippmann, Edward A. Thurber, Ella Schmalhausen, Lewis Wilbur Smith, Jessie M. Toland, Chestine Gowdy, William C. Bagley, William Allen White, Fred Newton Scott, Universität München, New York (State). Education Dept. Division of Trades Schools, United States Government Printing Office, and University of Kansas. Dept. of School Visitation (page images at HathiTrust)
[Pamphlets in philology and the humanities. Vol. 20]. (s.n., 1908), by Harry Porter, Fred Newton Scott, Frank Aydelotte, Frederick Morgan Padelford, Pierre Dareste, H. W. Horwill, James Creelman, Alleyne Ireland, G. W. Hosmer, William Warner Bishop, Charles G. Ross, Hubert Gibson Shearin, Lane Cooper, Albert Robinson Crittenden, Davis Henry Browne, Guy Montrose Whipple, Edwin Durning-Lawrence, Barrett Wendell, Frank Le Roy Blanchard, Warren Washburn Florer, Calvin Olin Davis, Clara Linklater Thomson, James Fleming Hosic, Andrew Fleming West, Albert Harris Tolman, Charles Sears Baldwin, Hugh A. O'Donnell, Columbia University. Graduate School of Journalism, Missouri, Columbia University, Indiana Association of Teachers of English, Funk & Wagnalls, Simplified Spelling Board, Secondary Education Club (University of North Dakota), Council on Medical Education and Hospitals (American Medical Association), Journalism week in print (1912 : University of Missouri), and National Conference on Uniform Entrance Requirements in English (1912) (page images at HathiTrust)
[Pamphlets in philology and the humanities. Vol. 23] (s.n., 1907), by William Allan Neilson, Otto Glaser, William Warner Bishop, Fred Newton Scott, Theodore Wesley Koch, Alfred H. Lloyd, Bertrand Russell, Willard Clark Gore, Charles William Wallace, Howard C. Warren, Frederick Morgan Padelford, Joseph Villiers Denney, George F. Reynolds, Stewart, Ernst Feise, Paul Elmer More, Joseph Lindsey Henderson, James Fleming Hosic, Sydney Brooks, Charles Hubbard Judd, Charles Wharton Stork, Stuart Hoffman Perry, Richard M. Meyer, Charles Joseph Tilden, Albert Granberry. 1870-1932 Reed, Clarence Miller Jones, John Samuel Kenyon, Henry A. Sanders, Alvin Saunders Johnson, Richard Ashley Rice, Joseph Rowe Webster, Henry Moore Bates, Joel Elias Spingarn, Maria Jpes-Speet, George Allan England, Randolph Silliman Bourne, Frank William Cady, Josiah Royce, Richard Burdon Haldane, Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank J. Mather, Edward L. Thorndike, Gerald Stanley Lee, Joseph Conrad, Simplified Spelling Board, National Education Association of the United States. Committee on the High-School English Course, Indiana) Indiana Association of Teachers of English. Meeting. (1991 : Indianapolis, American Association for International Conciliation, and Symposium on Reform in Grammatical Nomenclature in the Study of the Languages (page images at HathiTrust)
English spelling and spelling reform (Harper & Brothers, 1909), by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A phonetic reader for use in junior classes (University Press;, 1919), by Catherine F. Mackenzie and Philippa W. Drew (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A dictionary of simplified spelling, based on the publications of the United States Bureau of Education and the rules of the American Philolgical Association and the Simplified Spelling Board (Funk & Wagnalls company, 1915), by Frank H. Vizetelly (page images at HathiTrust)
Handbook of simplified spelling ([Simplified Spelling Board], 1920), by Simplified Spelling Board and Henry Gallup Paine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Simplified spelling. (Govt. print off., 1906), by Simplified Spelling Board, United States Government Printing Office, and United States. President (1901-1909 : Roosevelt) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Phonetic alphabets and phonetic spelling (M.C. Rodi and M.H.P. Rodi, 1924), by Merwyn C. Rodi (page images at HathiTrust)
New project for reforming the English alphabet and orthography : ... the plan of a reformed alphabet and orthography, and praying the assistance of Congress to extend a knowledge of it over the nation. (s.n.], 1844), by Ezekiel Rich (page images at HathiTrust)
A plea for phonotypy and phonography; or, Speech-printing and speech-writing. (I. Pitman, 1845), by Alexander John Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
A defence of phonetic spelling : drawn from a history of the English alphabet and orthography, with a remedy for their defects (F. Pitman, 1872), by R. G. Latham (page images at HathiTrust)
A system of phonetic spelling, adapted to English. (C.J. Clay and Sons, 1889), by Hugh Longbourne Callendar (page images at HathiTrust)
Rational spelling : a conservative scheme for national spelling reform, a letter addressed to the Earl of Beaconsfield (C. F. Hodgson, 1878), by George Harley (page images at HathiTrust)
The simplification of English spelling, specially adapted for the rising generation. An easy way of saving time in writing, printing, and reading. (Trübner, 1877), by George Harley (page images at HathiTrust)
Child's first reader ... ([Cincinnati?, 1904), by Benn Pitman (page images at HathiTrust)
A plea for alphabetic reform (Press of C.J. Krehbiel & Co., 1905), by Benn Pitman (page images at HathiTrust)
A plea for spelling reform : a series of tracts comp. from the Phonetic journal and other periodicals, recommending an enlarged alphabet and a reformed spelling of the English language (Fred. Pitman, 1878), by Isaac Pitman (page images at HathiTrust)
Simpler spelling; what can most wisely be done to hasten its coming? A paper presented at the meeting of the Department of Superintendence of the National Educational Association, Louisville, Kentucky, February 28, 1906 (The Palmer Company, 1906), by James Geddes and American Association of School Administrators (page images at HathiTrust)
Emendanda est orthographia. A treatise on spelling reform. (Nixon-Jones printing Co., 1884), by Emil Studer (page images at HathiTrust)
De recta et emendata linguae anglicae scriptione dialogus (1568) hrsg. (M. Niemeyer, 1913), by Thomas Smith, Otto Deibel, and Kaiserl. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Parts of speech; essays on English. (Scribner, 1910), by Brander Matthews (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Solomon'z song. (Fonic Pub. House, 1887), by Cornelius Wilson Larison (page images at HathiTrust)
A dicshunary of reformed and simplified spelling (New Milford, Conn., 1914), by Andrew C. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
A treatise on phonology: comprising a perfect alphabet for the English language; a specimen exhibition of the absurdities of our present system of orthography; Comstock's, Pitman's, and the Cincinnati alphabet, contrasted; a lecture on phonetics, by Prof. McLaine; the pamphoneticon, and recommendations of Comstock's alphabet. (E.H. Butler & Co., 1855), by Andrew Comstock, John M'Lean, and Benn Pitman (page images at HathiTrust)
Secund fönetic redur. (Lo[ng]li & Bru[th]ur, fönetic publi[sh]urs, 1851), by Elias Longley (page images at HathiTrust)
Dr. John Jones's Practical phonography (1701) (M. Niemeyer, 1907), by John Jones, Eilert Ekwall, and Kaiserl. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
On speech formation as the basis for true spelling. (Trübner, 1886), by Henry Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
Phonetic transcriptions of English prose. (Clarendon Press, 1907), by Daniel Jones (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
K-a-t spelz cat : the new English orthografy (Carlton Press, 1963), by Leo G. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
Deseret second book ([Salt Lake City], 1868), by Salt Lake City (Utah). University of Deseret (page images at HathiTrust)
Biography of the presidents of the United States (Lonli bruderz, 1856), by F. Gerard Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
On the relations between spoken and written language, with special reference to English (Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1913), by Henry Bradley (page images at HathiTrust)
Sound-English : a language for the world (Sold for the author by G.E. Stechert, 1890), by Augustin Knoflach (page images at HathiTrust)
English grammar (Printed by W. Turner, for the author, 1633), by Charles Butler and William Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
Projet pour perfectioner l'ortografe des langues d'Europe (Chez Briasson, 1730), by Charles Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre (page images at HathiTrust)
Relativ frequency of English speech sounds (Harvard University Press, 1950), by Godfrey Dewey (page images at HathiTrust)
An essay on English orthography, with a consideration of the schemes which have been suggested for its improvement by the adoption of a system of phonetic spelling. (Black, 1859), by James Kerr (page images at HathiTrust)
Fonetic spelling and writing, by Charles M. Rodee. (Clarke-McElroy Publishing Company, Printers, 1941), by Charles M. Rodee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A report upon phonotypy. (Metcalf, 1847), by American Academy of Arts and Sciences (page images at HathiTrust)
First phonetic reader. (Published by Otis Clapp, 1852), by Elias Longley (page images at HathiTrust)
Rich's easy instructions, for general early education, at home and at school. (Printed and sold by W. Heughes, 1847), by Ezekiel Rich (page images at HathiTrust)
Comstock's phonetic reader, no. 1. (The author, 1853), by Andrew Comstock (page images at HathiTrust)
Second phonetic reader (Lonli & Brudur [Longley & Brother], fonetic publizurz, 1852), by Elias Longley and Longley & Brother (page images at HathiTrust)
Spelling reform : from an educational point of view (Macmillan, 1879), by J. H. Gladstone (page images at HathiTrust)
Contre la réforme de l'orthographe. (Plon, 1909), by André Beaunier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A system of phonoscript and phonotypy. (Phonic Institute, 1980), by Charles Morrell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Anglo : being English simplified with numerous examples (Printed for the Author by Deighton, Bell & Co., 1915), by Immo S. Allen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A treatise on phonology; comprising a perfect alphabet of the English language (E. H. Butler & co., 1846), by Andrew Comstock and Benn Pitman (page images at HathiTrust)
Need and availability of the writing and spelling reform. ([n.p., 1857), by William Turner Coggeshall (page images at HathiTrust)
Spelling reform, its purpose and progress, with illustrations of phoenetic spelling (Schnable & Harnish, printers, 1895), by John M. Mott (page images at HathiTrust)
Should the National Education Association endorse the key alphabet adopted by the Department of Superintendence? (s.n.], 1911), by E. O. Vaile and National Education Association of the United States (page images at HathiTrust)
Three great reforms-how may we hasten them? (s.n., 1895), by A. H. MacKay (page images at HathiTrust)
Our unseen companions (G.M. Rose, 1896), by William Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
A handbook of phonetics (Clarendon Press, 1877), by Henry Sweet (page images at HathiTrust)
The spelling reform question discussed (Authors' Pub. Co., 1880), by E. H. Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
Report of the Committee appointed (January 6, 1888) by the American Philosophical Society to assist the Commission on Amended Orthografy (MacCalla & Company, printers, 1889), by American Philosophical Society. Committee to Assist the Commission on Amended Orthography (page images at HathiTrust)
Alatypes, or stenotypography: a system of condensed printing, together with the elements of alagraphy or syllabic short-hand. (The Author, 1887), by Henry H. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
The speler. (Bath., 1896) (page images at HathiTrust)
Mott's phonology and phonotype; a text book ... (J.M. Mott, 1902), by John M. Mott (page images at HathiTrust)
The problem of spelling reform (Oxford University Press, 1906), by Walter W. Skeat (page images at HathiTrust)
English spelling reform: its position and prospects in 1880. (London, 1880), by J. B. Rundell (page images at HathiTrust)
A system of phonetic spelling (P. Eby, printer, 1876), by Tobias Witmer (page images at HathiTrust)
Pitman's journal of commercial education. (London, etc., 1843), by Isaac Pitman (page images at HathiTrust)
Spelling reform, a discussion (The University of Chicago Press, 1901), by Edwin Orlando Vaile and William Torrey Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
Davis' phono-romanic instructor, for schools and academies; being a complete guide to Davis' phono-romanic chart. (G.H. Manlove & Co., 1869), by A. H. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
Story's blending and spelling book, and complete word-builder for all nations, containing the rules and explanations (in English) for blending and spelling (United States Phonetic Company, 1883), by Charles Augustus Story (page images at HathiTrust)
Kellogg's wonder books. Second book (Phonetic) ... (T.D. Kellogg, 1877), by Theodore D. Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust)
System of phonic writing ... Phonoscript and phonotypy (Phonic Institute, 1896), by Charles Morrell (page images at HathiTrust)
Economized commercial spelling (The Unpopular Review, 1916), by Henry Holt (page images at HathiTrust)
The spelling reform. (Govt. Print. Off., 1881), by Francis Andrew March (page images at HathiTrust)
The duty of literary men : an address before the Indianapolis branch of the Society of Alumni of the Indiana Asbury University (Burnz & Co., 1878), by T. A. Goodwin and Ind.). Society of Alumni. Indianapolis Branch Indiana Asbury University (Greencastle (page images at HathiTrust)
Reformed alphabet and orthography : memorial of N.E. Dawson ... setting forth the plan of a reformed alphabet and orthography, and suggesting measures to extend a knowledge of it over the nation. (s.n., 1878), by Noble E. Dawson and United States. Congress 1877-1878). House of Representatives (page images at HathiTrust)
Partial corrections of English spellings (Trübner and Co. for the Philological Society, 1881), by Philological Society, Stephen Austin, and Trübner & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
English: a world-wide tongue. (S. F. Vanni, 1944), by Mario Pei (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Fonetik crthqrafi ; krestqmathi. (Northwest Printery, 1944) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Speling reformer ... Publisht munthly in aid ov a revizion of English orthography without new leters by Eliza Boardman Burnz ... v. 1; Jan.-Dec. 1878. (Brunz & co., 1878), by Eliza Boardman Burnz (page images at HathiTrust)
Simplified English; a scheme for the adoption of Indian methods of pronunciation and combination of vowels and consonants for the formation of English words to make English in its most simplified form a national language for India. (Bombay, 1914), by Dinshah Framjee Bhathena (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Partial corrections of English spellings aproovd of by the Philological Society. (Trübner & Co. for the Philological Society, 1881), by Philological Society (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
A plea for spelling reform (F. Pitman; [etc., etc.], 1877), by W. R. Evans and Isaac Pitman (page images at HathiTrust)
Better American spelling for a post-war world; spelling reform for the American-English language with sound representation as a major directing criterion. (Athens, Ga., 1947), by William John Russell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
An easy method of spelling the English language : silent letters omitted ; every sound represented, without the aid of new characters ([s.n.], 1867), by Joseph Medill (page images at HathiTrust)
Pioneer ov simplified speling v.1-v.4, no.3 (March 1912-Jun.1915) (London., between 1000 and 1999), by Simplified Spelling Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Nurseri riemz and simpl poëmz; a furst reeder in simplified spelling. (London, 1913), by England) Simplified Speling Sosiëti (London and Robert Jackson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The best method of teaching children to read and write ; reports of experiements conducted in sixteen schools. ([London] : [Pitman], [1942, 1924], 1942), by London Simplified Spelling Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Biographies of the presidents of the United States, compiled by F.G. Adams (Longley Brothers, 1856), by F. G. Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
Dissertations on the English language : with notes, historical and criticito which is added, by way of appendix, an essay on a reformed mode of spelling, with Dr. Franklin's arguments on that subject (Boston : Printed for the author, by I. Thomas and Company, 1789., 1789), by Noah Webster (page images at HathiTrust)
English spelling and spelling reform, by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (Gutenberg ebook)
Parts of Speech: Essays on English, by Brander Matthews (Gutenberg ebook)
La Querelle de l'Orthographe (in French), by Marcel Boulenger (Gutenberg ebook)

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