The Aldine speller, part two

by Catherine T. Bryce; Frank J. Sherman

Review of Troublesome Words

142		143		144		145
friend		Tuesday		making		just
always		won’t		having		doctor
done		too		coming		know
heard		two		loving		minute
Wednesday		among		writing		blue
February		busy		buy		through
very		none		week		every

146		147		148		149
whole		shoes		piece		often
there		any		been		sugar
their		many		once		hour
don’t		which		does		says
here		could		sure		laid
can’t		should		where		break
world		would		climb		flour

The following 100 words have been found to be the “One Hundred Commonest Words in the English Language.” They are used and repeated so frequently in our writing that they constitute about one half of all the words we write. You have studied all of them. Can you spell each of them correctly?

the		will		my		had
and		as		this		has
of		have		his		very
to		not		which		were
I		with		dear		been
a		be		from		would
in		your		are		she
that		at		all		or
you		we		me		there
for		on		so		her
it		he		one		an
was		by		if		when
is		but		they		time
go		please		letter		do
some		week		make		after
any		night		write		than
can		their		thing		sir
what		other		think		last
send		up		should		house
out		our		truly		just
them		good		now		over
him		say		its		then
more		could		two		work
about		who		take		day
no		may		thank		here

THIRD YEAR VOCABULARY

We have followed the king’s rules. We can spell all these words. Can you?

able		another		asking		beam
add		anything		August		bean
afraid		apple		autumn		bear
afternoon		April		bank		beast
age		arm		bare		beauty
aid		around		barrel		became
alike		arrive		basket		been
almost		art		battle		beg
always		ask		beach		behave
among		asked		beak		belt
bend		branch		cart		clever
berries		broken		case		climb
berry		brush		cash		cloak
beside		bug		cask		coat
better		bunch		catch		coming
Billy		bunny		cattle		could
bless		burn		chalk		count
bliss		busy		change		country
blond		but		charm		crane
blown		butter		chart		crank
blue		buttercups		chase		cream
blush		cage		chatter		croak
boat		cane		check		crush
bond		can’t		cheek		cue
boot		card		cheese		cure
bottom		care		child		curls
bough		careful		chip		cut
bowl		careless		churn		daily
boy		carried		clean		dainty
dance		dream		enter		fifteen
dare		dress		even		fifth
dart		drink		evening		fifty
dash		drip		ever		finger
deal		dripping		every		fire
December		dropped		everybody		first
deck		due		everything		fist
dip		dug		fable		fix
dipper		dull		face		flash
dirt		dust		faint		flask
dish		dusty		fare		flatter
doctor		duty		farm		flirt
does		each		farmer		float
doesn’t		east		feast		floor
dog		easy		feather		flour
dollar		eighteen		February		flower
don’t		either		feel		follow
dozen		eleven		fellow		fond
drank		end		felt		food
form		given		hare		hiss
forget		giving		harm		hog
forty		glare		hasn’t		hole
fourteen		glue		haste		honey
fourth		goat		hasten		hoot
fox		God		hatch		horse
freak		golden		have		hour
fresh		goose		heal		house
Friday		grace		hear		hue
friend		great		heard		hull
frog		grip		heart		hundred
fruit		grown		heave		hunter
funny		guard		heavy		hurt
gale		guess		heel		hush
gallon		handle		help		hut
gather		happiest		here		I’m
gave		happiness		hero		Indian
geese		happy		himself		ink
give		hard		hip		inside
its		lard		limb		meek
itself		lash		lion		melt
January		latch		lip		mend
joy		laugh		living		mild
jug		laughing		loaf		mile
just		leaf		loaves		minute
keg		leak		log		miss
kiss		lean		loving		mist
kneel		learn		lunch		mistake
knelt		least		maid		moment
knife		leather		mane		Monday
knoll		leave		mannerly		money
know		leg		many		month
known		lend		mask		more
lace		less		match		morning
ladder		letter		matter		mother
laid		life		meadow		mouse
lamb		lily		meal		mouth
lane		like		mean		move
much		off		paper		pitcher
music		often		pare		place
neck		oh		part		platter
neither		oil		paste		please
never		once		patch		point
next		or		pea		pole
nineteen		orange		peach		pond
nip		order		pear		post
none		other		peak		potatoes
north		outside		peck		pound
nothing		over		peek		preach
November		own		peel		press
number		ox		peg		pretty
nut		oxen		penny		print
oak		page		picture		proof
oar		paid		pie		punch
oatmeal		paint		piece		pure
oats		pale		pink		quart
October		pane		pint		race
rage		rush		September		size
raise		rut		seventeen		skip
rank		safe		seventy		skipper
rare		saint		sever		skirt
rash		sale		shall		skull
rattle		sash		share		sleeve
reach		Saturday		ship		slip
read		says		shirt		slippers
remain		scale		shoes		smart
return		scare		shore		smile
rider		scatter		should		snare
ripe		scrape		shown		soak
river		scratch		shut		soap
road		sea		side		soft
roar		seal		sign		sole
roll		seasons		since		some
roof		second		sink		somebody
root		seek		sixteen		something
rug		send		sixty		sometime
sorry		stone		task		thirty
sour		store		taste		this
south		story		tea		through
sown		strange		teach		thrown
space		strife		team		thumb
spare		stroll		tear		Thursday
speak		such		teeth		thus
speck		suffer		tend		tip
spelt		sugar		tenth		tipping
spend		sulk		than		today
spoken		summer		thank		toe
square		Sunday		that’s		toll
stage		sunny		their		tomorrow
stare		sure		there		tonight
start		table		these		tooth
steal		tale		think		toy
steam		talk		third		trace
stocking		tardy		thirsty		Troy
stole		tart		thirteen		true
trust		water		while		wore
Tuesday		weak		whip		work
tug		wear		whipping		world
turn		weather		whole		worth
twelve		weave		whom		wrist
twenty		Wednesday		wife		yard
twist		week		wild		yeast
upset		whale		wink		yellow
vane		whatever		wire		yesterday
wage		wheel		wolf		young
walk		where		woe		your
waste		which		won’t

THE ALDINE SPELLER
PART II
FOURTH YEAR