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The American Spelling Book - The Original 1824 Edition
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About The American Spelling Book - The Original 1824
Noah Webster's 1824 "American Spelling Book" has sold over 100 million copies since its publication, making it one of the best selling books of all time in the United States. According to the National Museum of American History, "Webster’s goal was to divorce the American educational system from its British roots, and accordingly his speller substituted many British spellings for American variants, dropping extra letters like “u” and “e” to simplify the language...The American Spelling Book was commonly known as the “blue backed speller” due to its blue cover." This Kindle edition is an exact replica of the original, and modern fonts have been used for ease of reading. The typesetting of this digital edition was prepared by Donald L. Potter, who bolded the main accent, "to make it easier for younger students to better visualize the accented syllable." This is a valuable improvement that will help modern learners quickly grasp the fundamentals of reading. Webster considered multisyllabic words easy for young students, and taught them right away. The use of this speller will therefore engage young people with reading complex words much sooner than they would with modern reading programs, therefore placing learners and readers of this book at an incredible advantage. This Kindle edition is an exact replica of the 1824 edition, and with an added table of contents for quick navigation on digital devices.
