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Short Stuff: Simple Spelling Movement

Stuff You Should Know

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Roosevelt’s Spelling Reform Backlash

Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant introduce the movement and recount how Theodore Roosevelt’s 1906 order for simplified federal spellings triggered ridicule and congressional pushback.

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