Excerpt from A Review of Webster's System of Orthography, From the United States Democratic Review, for March, 1856 Use, abuse, rise; the nouns and verbs have a uniform spelling, but' the nouns are pronounced as ace and ice, and the verbs uze and ize yet advice and advise, with a similar difi'erenee of pronunciation, are spelled to conform to that difference. Again, surprise, surmise, etc., pronounce the s like z, 'in both the verb and the noun: Few and view; why should not the spelling of these words be uniform. Whole in ...
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Excerpt from A Review of Webster's System of Orthography, From the United States Democratic Review, for March, 1856 Use, abuse, rise; the nouns and verbs have a uniform spelling, but' the nouns are pronounced as ace and ice, and the verbs uze and ize yet advice and advise, with a similar difi'erenee of pronunciation, are spelled to conform to that difference. Again, surprise, surmise, etc., pronounce the s like z, 'in both the verb and the noun: Few and view; why should not the spelling of these words be uniform. Whole in the adverb drops the e, and becomes wholly; vile in the' adverb retains the e, vilely. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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