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This is a glossary of the words that were subject to Steven Keese's proposed spelling reforms. Most of the following transcriptions are straightforward, but many are open to interpretation. Reader Beware.

@r = our
$al = shall
$ad = shade
absens = absence
ad = add
admited = admitted
aford = afford
agen = again
aking =aching
al = all
allways = always
Almity = Almighty
anxus = anxious
awa = away
az = as

bak = back
beter = better
bin = been
blest = blessed
blindnes = blindness
borod = borrowed
bred = bread
brekfast = breakfast
brit = bright
buble = bubble
bufalo = buffalo
butiful = beautiful

calld = called
cary = carry
caus = cause
changable = changeable
clater = clatter
cleard = cleared
colar = collar
comand = command
combind = combined
comun = commune
confind = confined
consien$us = conscientious
controll = control
countenans = countenance
coverd = covered
coz = cause
creture = creature
cuming = coming

deformd = deformed
dens = dense
deth = death
difrens, difrent = difference, different
disgras = disgrace
doters = daughters
drest = dressed
drov = drove
dum = dumb

economise = economies
ekwal = equal
elevn = eleven
embras, embrast = embrace, embraced
endz = ends
esa = essay
evry = every
exchangd = exchanged
exced = exceed
extremz = extremes

fas = face
fals = false
familyar = familiar
farise = Pharisee
fatherles = fatherless
fens = fence
forethot = forethought
fritful = frightful

gon = gone
grat = great
haild = hailed
hapy, hapyer = happy, happier
hart = heart
hav = have
helth = health
hering = hearing
hevn, heven = heaven
hikories =hickories
hily = highly
hoos = whose
houshold = household
hur = her
hurld = hurled
hwot = what
hypocrcy = hypocrisy

Id = I'd
iland = island
invaralle = invariable

jak = jack
jelosy = jealousy
j%nd = joined
jurnal = journal

kaus = cause
kernal = coronel
kis = kiss
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