Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Speller, Vol. 1
The words selected are those which the children need to know perfectly. It is intended that. This study shall begin in the second year of school life gradation of the work, however, is left with county and city boards of education to be arranged in their courses of study.
The International Dictionary has been used as authority in spelling, syllabication, and accent. Where words are spelled or pronounced in two or more ways, that form of the word is given which has preference in the authority named here as the standard.
Lists of homonyms and homophones, often appear ing in spelling books, have been omitted from this text, as it is believed that when so grouped they confuse the pupil.
The lists of abbreviations should be studied and reviewed until mastered.
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