Excerpt from The Western Spelling Book: Being an Improvement of the American Spelling Book, by Noah Webster; Designed for the Use of Common Schools The sounds of the diphthongs of oi and ou, a represented by figures; these have one inva' sound, and are placed before the words where occur in the tables. Silent letters are printed in Italic characters. In head, goal, build, people, fight, the Italic l have no sound. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.