The Grammar of English Grammars, page 460 by Gould Brown
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form in which they must ultimately learn to read it, and which indeed constitutes its only orthography.
IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION.
ERRORS IN SPELLING.
UNDER RULE I.--OF FINAL F, L, OR S.
"He wil observe the moral law, in hiz conduct."--_Webster's Essays_, p. 320.
[FORMULES--1. Not proper, because the word "_wil_" is here spelled with one l. But, according to Rule 1st, "Monosyllables ending in _f, l_, or s, preceded by a single vowel, double the final consonant." Therefore, this l should be doubled; thus, will.
2. Not proper again, because the word "_hiz_" is here spelled with z. But, according to the exceptions to Rule 1st, "The words _as, gas, has, was, yes, his_, &c., are written with single s." Therefore, this z should be _s_; thus, his.]
"A clif is a steep bank, or a precipitous rock."--See _Rhyming Dict._ "A needy man's budget is ful of schemes."--Old Adage. "Few large publications in this country wil pay a printer."--_Noah Webster's Essays_, p. x. "I shal, with cheerfulness, resign my other papers to oblivion."--_Ib._, p. x. "The proposition waz suspended til the next session of the legislature."--_Ib._, p. 362. "Tenants for life wil make the most of lands for themselves."--_Ib._, p. 366. "While every thing iz left to lazy negroes, a state wil never be wel cultivated."--_Ib._, p. 367. "The heirs of the original proprietors stil hold the soil."--_Ib._, p. 349. "Say my annual profit on money loaned shal be six per cent."--_Ib._, p. 308. "No man would submit to the drudgery of business, if he could make money az fast by lying stil."--_Ib._, p. 310. "A man may az wel feed himself with a bodkin, az with a knife of the present fashion."--_Ib._, p. 400. "The clothes wil be ill washed, the food wil be badly cooked; and you wil be ashamed of your wife, if she iz not ashamed of herself."--_Ib._, p. 404. "He wil submit to the laws of the state, while he iz a member of it."-