Publisher's Synopsis
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.
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