01708cam a2200433 i 4500 359778776 TxGeo 20181005120000.0 180129s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017061223 9781534405554 hbk. 1534405550 hbk. (OCoLC)1022689394 TxGeo rda Anderson, Beth. An inconvenient alphabet : Ben Franklin and Noah Webster's spelling revolution / written by Beth Anderson ; illustrated by Elizabeth Baddeley. Ben Franklin and Noah Webster's spelling revolution. Ben Franklin & Noah Webster's spelling revolution. First edition. New York, NY : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2018. 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. Details the origins of Noah Webster's first American English dictionary and the struggles of Webster and Ben Franklin to help unify the new country through language in the 1780s. Ages 004-008. 20181023. Webster, Noah 1758-1843. Franklin, Benjamin 1706-1790. English language United States Orthography and spelling. Spelling reform. Americanisms. Baddeley, Elizabeth. QS5