- r, letter and sound, [79], [80].
- Ramsay, Allan, [217].
- Reasoning powers, impairment of, [335]-[337].
- Richardson, Samuel, [86].
- Ritson, Joseph, [245]-[248].
- Roosevelt, President, his order about spelling, [1], [59], [308].
- Runic letters, [97].
- s, of pleasure, represented by s, by si, by z, by zi, [187].
- s, unpronounced, [172], [181], [290].
- Sanskrit, [100].
- Scott, Sir Walter, [247].
- sh (of ship), digraph, represented by ce, by ci, by s, by si, by t, by ti, by xi, [187].
- Shakespeare, William, [22], [24]-[30], [32]-[35], [116], [194], [195], [201]-[203].
- Sheridan, Thomas, [65], [207], [221], [263], [326].
- Signs, insufficiency of, in English, [96], [97], [99].
- Smart, Benjamin Humphrey, [66], [147], [230], [263].
- Sounds, [75], [76];
- number of, [96], [107];
- ignorance of, [78], [241].
- Southey, Robert, [131].
- Spanish spelling, [49], [322].
- Spelling, difference between present and past, [20]-[23], [24], [25];
- ignorance of nature and history of, [56] ff.
- Spelling reform, attitude of men of letters toward, [58];
- attitude of women
- toward, [82]-[86];
- not limited to English race, [48].
- Spenser, Edmund, [14], [155], [184], [185], [225].
- Sterne, Lawrence, [52].
- Strahan, William, [217].
- Swift, Jonathan, [31].
- t, represented by ed, [184], [185];
- unpronounced, [165], [169], [172], [181].
- Taylor, William, [131].
- Tennyson, Alfred, [142], [155].
- th, digraph, surd and sonant sounds of, [96]-[99];
- represents t, [185].
- Thackeray, William Makepeace, [316].
- “Thorn” letter, [97], [98].
- Times, London, [18], [60], [61], [62], [67], [68], [69].
- Todd, Henry John, [68].
- Tonson, Jacob, [30].
- Tooke, John Horne, [227].
- Trench, Richard Chenevix, [285], [294], [299], [308], [327].
- u, letter and sound, [97], [128], [129], [267], [293];
- represents short i, [124];
- sounded as w, [157];
- with y element, represented by u, by ue, by eu, by ew, [130].
- u, long, represented by o, by oe, by ou, [128];
- by oo, [128], [152];
- by ue, by ui, by eu, by ew, by ieu, [129].
- u, short, represented by o, by ou, [128];
- by oo, [128], [153].
- “u, short,” [105], [106], [111], [113], [131];
- short sound of, represented by u, by oe, [132];
- by o, [132], [153];
- by oo, [132], [153];
- long sound of represented by e, by i, by o, by ie, [132];
- by ea, [132], [144];
- by ou, [132], [153].
- ua, digraph, represents long a, [113];
- short a, [114];
- as wa, [157].
- ue, digraph, represents long u, [129], [158];
- as we, [157];
- final, unpronounced, [158].
- ui, digraph, represents long u, [129], [159];
- short i, [124];
- “long i,” [159].
- Unaccented syllables, indistinctness of sound of, [110].
- Uniformity of spelling, desire of, [277]-[278].
- uy, digraph, represents long i, [77], [126], [157];
- short i, [126].
- v, letter and sound, [97], [162], [172].
- Vanbrugh, Sir John, [225].
- Vowel-sounds, progressive movement of, [99]-[113].
- w, letter and sound, [156], [157], [178];
- unpronounced, [165], [172];
- followed by h, [163], [164];
- followed by r, [163], [164]
- Walker, John, [65], [66], [101], [102], [139], [141], [147], [154], [155], [169], [178], [207], [221], [222], [223], [230], [260], [263], [292].
- Webster, Noah, [228], [248]-[255].
- Wesley, John, [224].
- Whitney, William Dwight, [91], [100].
- Women, attitude of, towards spelling, [82]-[86];
- former indifference of, to spelling, [86].
- Worcester, Joseph Emerson, [89], [229], [252].
- z, unpronounced, [172].
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