ORTHOGRAPHY.
Reading edition
ORTHOGRAPHY.
1. Follow Webster’s International Dictionary.
2. Observe the spelling of the following words:
Arapahoe
Arapahoes
Navajo
Navajoes
upward
downward
backward
forward
toward
aftward
afterwards
draft, drafting, etc.
manila (city and product)
canyon
embed
waterway
employee
missfire
farther (distance)
further (other than distance)
3. Use the following forms of words:
O. K.
taggers tin
feet, B. M.
Anderson & Co.’s invoice
5 by (not x) 10 inches
by day (not day’s) labor
State (not State’s) prison
quartermaster stores
one-fourth (where ¼ is marked “spell” in copy)
Jones’s (possessive)
can not
waterworks
waterway
cattleman
4. Omit the dieresis in such words as reexamine, cooperation, preemption, zoology.
5. The following is a list of words in common use in which accented letters occur. Follow it, except in works of the United States Geological Survey and United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, in which no accented letters are permissible:
attaché
bête noir
blasé
Champs Élysées
chargé d’affaires
confrère
coup d’état
coup de grâce
débris
élite
en arriére
en échelon
en déshabille
en règle
entrée
entrepôt
eozoon
exposé
façade
fête champêtre
garçon
matériel (Fr.)
mêlée
née
papier mâché
procés verbal
protégé
régime
résumé
rôle
rôle d’équipage