| move | movement | disgrace | disgraceful |
| defense | defenseless | fate | fateful |
| arrange | arrangement | fierce | fiercely |
| noise | noiseless | manage | management |
| severe | severely | rude | rudeness |
Exceptions.—Truly, duly, wisdom, awful, wholly.
Bring to class a list of twenty words that retain the final e before a suffix beginning with a consonant.
Exercise 43
What spelling rule does each of the following words illustrate?
| advantageous | gigantic | boxes | admittance |
| mimicking | piece | libraries | occurrence |
| arrangement | receipt | keys | acquittal |
Exercise 44—Abbreviations
Write abbreviations for the months of the year. Are there any that should not be abbreviated?
The abbreviations for the states and territories are:
| Alabama, Ala. | Maryland, Md. |
| Arizona, Ariz. | Massachusetts, Mass. |
| Arkansas, Ark. | Michigan, Mich. |
| California, Cal. | Minnesota, Minn. |
| Colorado, Colo. | Mississippi, Miss. |
| Connecticut, Conn. | Missouri, Mo. |
| Delaware, Del. | Montana, Mont. |
| District of Columbia, D.C. | Nebraska, Nebr. |
| Florida, Fla. | Nevada, Nev. |
| Georgia, Ga. | New Hampshire, N.H. |
| Idaho, Idaho | New Mexico, N. Mex. |
| Illinois, Ill. | New York, N.Y. |
| Indiana, Ind. | New Jersey, N.J. |
| Iowa, Ia. | North Carolina, N.C. |
| Kansas, Kans. | North Dakota, N. Dak. |
| Kentucky, Ky. | Ohio, O. |
| Louisiana, La. | Oklahoma, Okla. |
| Maine, Me. | Oregon, Ore. |
| Pennsylvania, Pa. | Utah, Utah |
| Philippine Islands, P.I. | Vermont, Vt. |
| Porto Rico, P.R. | Virginia, Va. |
| South Carolina, S.C. | Washington, Wash. |
| South Dakota, S.D. | Wisconsin, Wis. |
| Tennessee, Tenn. | West Virginia, W. Va. |
| Texas, Tex. | Wyoming, Wyo. |