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Quotes from Preface to A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings — Noah Webster

1758–1843 United States

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There iz no alternativ. Every possible reezon that could ever be offered for altering the spelling of wurds, stil exists in full force; and if a gradual reform should not be made in our language, it wil proov that we are less under the influence of reezon than our ancestors.

Preface to A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings (1790)

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