An Inconvenient Alphabet: Ben Franklin and Noah Webster's Spelling Revolution
Author:
Beth Anderson
Illustrator:
Elizabeth Baddeley
Publication:
2018 by Paula Wiseman Books
Genre:
Fiction, Historical Fiction, History, Picture Books
Pages:
48
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Do you ever wish English was EEZEEYER TO SPEL?
Ben Franklin and Noah Webster did!
Once upon a revolutionary time, two great American patriots tried to make life easier. They knew how hard English words were to spell. They knew that sounds didn't match letters. They knew that the problem was an inconvenient English alphabet.
In 1786, Ben Franklin and Noah Webster teamed up. Their goal? Make English easier to read and write. But even for great thinkers, what seems easy can turn out to be hard.
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