Excerpt from A Speller for the Use of the Teachers of California: Compiled Under the Direction of the State Board of Education The most recent investigations are in estimates of a writing vocabulary. The beginnings have been made by tabulating the words in business and social correspondence, and in exhausting and tabulating the vocabularies of children in the grades in their own free written speech. The limited nature of this vocabulary is the remarkable thing at present. More tabulated correspondence is necessary to confirm the conclusions at pres ent available. The adult correspondence lists are found at the end of the present book. The children's writing vocabulary has been most scientifically handled so far by Dr. Wm. Franklin Jones; so we take the liberty of printing his conclusions in full. They embody the best thought up to date in the selection of the material for spelling. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.