The San Francisco Call – April 16, 1911, Page 23
Simplified Spelling Will Prevail… or not.
by JD Thomas | Sep 8, 2015
‘We have been trying for several generations to teach children to spell ‘correctly.’ A great many never learn; few learn without great waste of time and labor. The fault is not theirs. It lies in the chaos and unreason of English spelling itself. We can make it better if we will.'”
–A Simplified Spelling
Board advertisement in 1911.
The wonderful work of archivists have preserved far more material than we usually see. Our goal here is to unearth and present some of the stuff we never saw in school.