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Excerpt from An Address to the Friends of Education: Especially, Among the Illiterate Classes; Under the Auspices of the "National Society for Illiterates" New York, August 1st, 1891
These principles and methods are used to an imperfect degree, in all pronouncing dictionaries and spelling books. First - Most of the letters and digraphs have one regular, adopted usage in the English text, as signs of certain ele mentary sounds in the Spoken language, such as p, b, f, d, ch, th, oi, ou, etc. This principle of a regular adopted sign and sound corresponding, makes signs regular by adoption. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.
