Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Benjamin Franklin and Language Planning/Reform

  1.  Benjamin Franklin's phonetic alphabet - Wikipedia, the free ...

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    Benjamin Franklin's phonetic alphabet was Benjamin Franklin's proposal for a spelling reform of the English language. It used many of the same letters, but ...
  2. The Case for Spelling Reform, by Benjamin Franklin - Essays on the ...

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    english language. The Case for Spelling Reform, by Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). In this letter, composed while he was living in London, ...
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  3. What languages did Ben Franklin speak? - Yahoo! Answers

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    2 answers - Sep 25, 2007
    What languages did Ben Franklin speak? ... Franklin started America's first German-language newspaper, Philadelphische Zeitung (6 May ...
     
     
    Neil
     
    I have longed for a 10 page article by Benjamin Frankilin that I read in a linguistics course close to 20 years ago. 

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