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  PRACTICAL HIGH SCHOOL
  SPELLER

  COMPILED BY
  TOBIAS O. CHEW, M.S.

  SUPERINTENDENT OF CITY SCHOOLS
  WASHBURN, WISCONSIN

  ALLYN AND BACON
  Boston  New York  Chicago




  COPYRIGHT, 1914,
  BY TOBIAS O. CHEW.

  DAAN

  Norwood Press
  J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
  Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.




  Dedicated
  TO THE
  MANY HIGH SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS, PRINCIPALS, AND
  TEACHERS, WHO BY THEIR COOePERATION HAVE
  MADE POSSIBLE THE COMPILATION
  OF THIS BOOK




PREFACE


What are the words most commonly misspelled by the average high school
pupil? In an endeavor to solve this problem, two thousand letters,
with five postal cards in each, were sent to representative high
schools in every state in the United States, requesting the heads of
the various departments to report the words most commonly misspelled
in their classes. From the many thousand replies, this text-book has
been compiled.

The first word in Lesson I was sent in by seven hundred high school
teachers; the other words in this lesson show, by their order, the
frequency with which they appear in the replies. No word has been
considered unless suggested by at least two teachers. This book, then,
built on the judgment of those best qualified to know--the teachers
themselves--contains only the words most frequently misspelled by the
average high school pupil.

A simple phrase is placed after each word, illustrating its use, and
serving to identify it better than would