The Book of Spells and Misspells

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12. How difficult would present spelling be for a later generation … that was acustomd to One-Page Spelling Rules? Rules? No harder than it is for us today to read 17th century texts or correspondence before Johnson’s Dictionary. Obsolete vocabulary and idioms are more likely to baffle us.

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