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Reinventing the English language...

Item # 716261
November 30, 1850
WECLI FONETIC ADVOCET, Sinsinati, Novembur, Ogust 30, 1850  [Weekly Phonetic Advocate, Cincinnati, Ohio]  This is one of the more curious newspapers of the 19th century.
During this time there was a movement afoot to create a new mode of writing & spelling: to spell words as they sounded, phonetically. Obviously it never caught on, but it did result in this unusual newspaper which is almost entirely written phonetically. This newspaper lasted a bit over 3 years.
The front page: "The Spelling Reform" explains this new method of spelling English words. Above this is the: "English Phonetic Alphabet".
Four pages, a bit iregular at the spine margin from disbinding, good condition.

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