On October 30, 1798, Thomas Jefferson wrote to Sir Herbert Croft about the difficulties of grammar:
“My busy life has not permitted me to indulge in a pursuit to which I felt great attraction. While engaged in it however some ideas occurred for facilitating the study by simplifying its grammar, by reducing the infinite diversities of its unfixed orthography to single and settled forms, indicating at the same time the pronunciation of the word by its correspondence with the characters & powers of the English alphabet.”
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