Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Webster, Noah (1970), A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, Retrieved on 2015-03-17
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    17 MAR 2015

     Orthography Must be Balanced

    The orthography of our language is extremely irregular; and many fruitless attempts have been made to reform it. The utility and expedience of such reform have been controverted, and both side of the question have been maintained with no inconsiderable zeal. On this subject, as on most others which divide the opinions of men, parties seem to have erred by running into extremes. The friends of a reform maintain that our alphabet should be rendered perfectly regular, by rejecting superfluous c...
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