Excerpt from Practical Spelling: A Text Book, for Use in Commercial Schools, Normal Schools, Colleges, Academies, and High Schools Had we believed, with a celebrated Congressman - not noted for skill in orthography that spelling is very small business, this book would not have been published. Considering the subject important, we have earnestly endeavored to prepare a work that should present it in the most attractive, interesting and useful manner. Tile words have been selected with great care, our aim being to take only words in common use, and such as are liable to be misspelled. They are arranged alphabetically, classified to make the study of 'the lessons more interesting and at the same time give a knowledge of the proper use of the words. The part of speech of leach has been given. Only one, two, or at most three words have been selected from a series of words derived from the same root, varying slightly in spelling or definition. 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.