"Herb Chong" wrote: >Noah may be remembered for his dictionary, but hidden in the >dictionary was a highly political and moral agenda, one of >which was to separate American English from England's English.
It wasn't so much as his dictionary as his "American Spelling book" (later retitled the "Elementary Spelling Book"). Even so, he was famously capricious with his taste for spelling reform: He actually argued *for* the British spelling of words ending in "our" instead of "or", like "colour" and "humour". -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
