English as She Is Wrote

Excerpt from English as She Is Wrote: Showing Curious Ways in Which the English Language May Be Made to Convey Ideas or Obscure Them; A Companion to "English as She Is Spoke" "Anybody," said an astute lawyer, addressing the jury to whom the opposing counsel had reflected upon inaccuracies in the spelling of his brief - "anybody can write English correctly, but surely a man may be allowed to spell a word in two or three different ways if he likes " This was a claim for independence of action which so commended itself to the jury that it won a verdict for his client. 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.