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They approach in full aquatic costume, with round blue jackets, striped shirts, and caps of all sizes and patterns, from the velvet skull-cap of French manufacture, to the easy head-dress familiar to the students of the old spelling-books, as having, on the authority of the portrait, formed part of the costume of the Reverend Mr. Dilworth.
Most people called it the "Blue-Backed Speller" because of its blue cover and, for the next one hundred years, Webster's book taught children how to read, spell, and pronounce words. It was the most popular American book of its time; by 1837, it had sold 15 million copies, and some 60 million by 1890—reaching the majority of young students in ...
Jesse Olney (12 October 1798 – 31 July 1872) was an American geographer. He was active in the improvement of school textbooks on the subject of geography. His work was rewarded with substantial sales, second only to Noah Webster 's American Spelling Book .
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The modern Frisian language is the closest-sounding language to the English used approximately 2,000 years ago, when the people from what is now the north of the Netherlands travelled to what would become England, and pushed the Celtic language—ancestor of modern Welsh— to the western side of the island. Words like "blue" can be recognised ...
The New-England primer enlarged. For the more easy attaining the true reading of English. To which is added, the Assembly's catechism – Partially digitized object in Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University Library; 1777 ed. online at sacred-texts.com; 1843 ed. online at johansens.us; Images from the 1843 edition (archived)
Norman Washington Harllee (c. 1847 – 1927) was an educator and advocate for African American education in the United States. He was born on the Harllee Plantation near Lumberton in Robeson County, North Carolina where he was enslaved. [1] He taught himself to read and write using Webster's spelling book. [1] He attended Biddle University. [2]
The Simplified Spelling Board was announced on March 11, 1906, with Andrew Carnegie funding the organization, to be headquartered in New York City. The New York Times noted that Carnegie was convinced that "English might be made the world language of the future" and an influence leading to universal peace, but that this role was obstructed by its "contradictory and difficult spelling". [1]