Some of Webster’s reasons for proposing changes to the American language were reasonable, while others were completely blown out of proportion, or irrelevant. The first of his reasons for the changes he proposed were that it would be easier for the children to learn to spell. This is a reasonable assessment to make but i’m not sure that it would really affect the amount of time it would take a child to learn to spell. Webster’s second reason for changing the AMerican spelling is that pronunciation would be the same everywhere. I do think that this is a good point because pronunciation can cause tension between people of different class, rank and background. With Webster’s spelling changes it would eliminate said tension. Another one of his
