On August 27, 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt directed Charles A. Stillings, the Public Printer of the United States, to use 300 simplified spellings in all the executive-branch documents printed by his office. The documentation for this characterically bold initiative is here made available online for the first time. Click Below For: The Mysterious "Executive Order" The List The History
Click here for a free subscription to Spelling Progress Bulletin A Publication of the American Literacy Council Click here Spelling Reform Links Various Schemes to Reform English Spelling Famous Dead People Who Have Promoted Spelling Reform Fiction, Nonfiction in Reformed Spelling	To contrast the president's lucid and manly views with the obscurantist sophistries of the Dark Lord of Lexicography, click on the image of Dr. Samuel Johnson:

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