How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee (Registro nro. 64945)
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| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PS |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Wister, Owen, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1860-1938 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2007 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
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| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2007-12-19 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Produced by D Alexander and the Online Distributed<br/>Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was<br/>produced from images generously made available by The<br/>Internet Archive) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee" by Owen Wister is a satirical novella written in the early 20th century. This humorous work explores the absurdity of English spelling and the proposed reforms surrounding it, highlighting the chaotic nature of language change. Wister's story takes place during a time when there were widespread discussions about simplifying and modernizing English spelling. The narrative follows Thomas Greenberry, an aloof, scholarly character who becomes unwittingly embroiled in a campaign led by the eccentric Masticator B. Fellows, the president of Chickle University. Greenberry finds himself attending a convention that aims to reform English spelling and encounters a cast of quirky characters, including other scholars like Professor Willows and Miss Appleby. As Greenberry navigates the chaos of the meetings—marked by ludicrous suggestions, conflicts of opinion, and humorous misunderstandings—he realizes that the serious issue of spelling reform is overshadowed by personal flirtations and the bizarre antics of his fellow scholars. Ultimately, the novella serves as a comic critique of both language and its reformers, revealing the complexities and follies inherent in the quest for simplification. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Note about original | Original publication data not identified |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Satire |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Spelling reform -- Fiction |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Gruger, Frederic Rodrigo, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1871-1953 |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23923">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23923</a> |
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