Through with "Thru" at the Chicago "Tribune": The McCormick Spelling Experiment.

Vivian, John H.

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ERIC Number: EJ219521

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Publication Date: 1979

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Through with "Thru" at the Chicago "Tribune": The McCormick Spelling Experiment.

Vivian, John H.

Journalism History, v6 n3 p84-87,96 Fall 1979

Offers an interpretive chronology of the wavering 1934 to 1975 Chicago "Tribune" commitment to spelling simplification; lists the words involved in the spelling experiment and notes public reaction to the experiment. (GT)

Descriptors: History, Innovation, Newspapers, Policy Formation, Spelling

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Historical Materials

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Language: English

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