The Columbian Spelling-Book: Containing the Elements of the English Language; A Classification of the Alphabet; An Easy System of Spelling and ... With Easy Reading Lessons (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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The words labour, honour, ardour, Ste. Retaining the u in the last syllable, is the regular English orthography labor, honor, anior, 8x. The Latin and Iabeur, Itoueur, ardeur, 810. The French. The French may with as much propriety reduce such words to the Latin, by dropping the eu, and inserting the o, as we can by dropping the u. But they ought to retain the eu, and we the u, to distinguish our words from the Latin, and from each other.

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