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UNION SPELLER:

BEING

A CLEAR AND COMPLETE EXHIBITION

ENGLISH ORTHOGRAPHY AND ORTHOËPY,

ON

THE BASIS OF THE NEW ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF WEBSTER'S GREAT AMERICAN DICTIONARY,

TOGETHER WITH

NUMEROUS EXERCISES IN SYNONYMS, IN OPPOSITES, IN ANALYSIS,
AND IN FORMAL DEFINITION; THE WHOLE ADAPTED TO
THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIES.

BY CHARLES W. SANDERS, A.M., AUTHOR OF "SERIES OF SCHOOL READERS;" "ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH WORDS;" "ELEMENTARY AND ELOCUTIONARY CHART," ETC., ETC.

IVISON, BLAKEMAN & COMPANY,

PUBLISHERS,

NEW YORK AND CHICAGO.

Edue + 758 +65 760

PREFACE.

THE aim in this book has been to bring into shape, suitable for daily use in the schools, the clear and complete exhibition of English Orthography and Orthoëpy, found in the last edition of Webster's great American Dictionary.

The plan adopted for this purpose is, in several respects, quite out of the beaten track for works of this kind.

This will especially appear in the series of exercises on the powers and uses of the vowels, which, though prepared for this special purpose, have, nevertheless, all the simplicity of ordinary spelling lessons.

It will appear, also, in the method employed for the illustration of the several Rules for Spelling, which are here supported, not, as is usual, by a few instances, however appropriate, but by such an array of examples, all digested into lessons of convenient size, as can not fail to fix in the mind of the learner the means of determining at once the true spelling of thousands of words.

In the collection of TEST WORDS, too, will be found a feature singularly useful for the higher classes in schools, and for Teachers Institutes; embracing, as it does, over two thousand words, so arranged as to reveal many similarities and differences that ordinarily escape the attention of youth entirely. The whole is eminently practical. It shows the laws and usages of the language in respect to spelling and pronunciation, it explains by comparison, by contrast, by analysis, and by formal definition, the true meaning and application of words; yet all this is done without cumbering the path of the pupil with any perplexing details of theoretic teaching.

The treatise on the Powers and Uses of the Letters, the list of Proper Names, Foreign Words and Phrases, with their definitions, as well as the description of Pauses and Marks used in writing, can not fail to be regarded as essential elements in every well-arranged Spelling Book.

NEW YORK, July, 1865.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by
CHARLES W. SANDERS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern

District of New York.

ЧАПУЛКО СОЕ

Jan. 5, 1929

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