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The Long View: Ambrose Bierce on Spelling Reform

Benjamin Espen

May 3, 2017
  • The Long View
  • Spelling Reform

Heh.


From "The Devil's Dictionary"
by Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913?)



"A spelling reformer indicted
For fudge was before the court cicted.
The judge said: 'Enough--
His candle we'll snough,
And his sepulchre shall not be whicted.'"

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