14 Dec
2009
14 Dec
'09
1:47 p.m.
On 14 Dec 2009 at 16:34, Ethan Dicks wrote:
My reaction to reading this the first time (many years
ago) was "Holy
cow! Mark Twain was an alien from the planet Resida!" (a reference
you'll get if you've played Infocom's "Planetfall").
Before Twain, Noah Webster was an advocate of spelling
simplification. (That's why we in the US spell "color" and not
"colour"). Webster's simplifications took hold here because he had
market share.
--Chuck