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44,000 words spelled in conventional and 'American' spelling. As with the American Spelling Dictionary, each conventional spelling is accompanied by its American equivalent, a simpler spelling based on the 26 letters of the alphabet to consistently describe the 42 sounds used when speaking English. The system is able to translate common word processing documents from conventional spelling to this simpler phonetic spelling. A book about learning to read, and the principle means which have been employed to detour the massive roadblocks our traditional orthography imposes. In his culmination of a lifetime of research, Godfrey Dewey offers this intriguing phonemic notation for English which offers basically one spelling per sound, one pronunciation per spelling.