Excerpt from Word-Book of English Spelling, Oral and Written: Designed to Attain Practical Results in the Acquisition of the Ordinary English Vocabulary, and to Serve as an Introduction to Word-Analysis Learning to spell the English language correctly is the most difficult task Of school life. Hence correct spelling is rightly regarded as a sign of culture, and bad spelling as indicating a lack Of it. Orthography cannot be taught in twelve easy lessons it can be acquired only by hard study. It is true that the spelling of many words is learned by pupils from the reading-lessons; but these lessons, valuable as they are, need to be supplemented by a special text-book for special study. The word-book is neither a. Primary Speller nor a Dictionary. It omits the alphabet and the ab ab's on the one hand, and on the other, quite a number Of sesquipedalian Words common to all Old-time spelling-books. 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.