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[John in San Diego]

No mud intended. In his books, he just spells words the way they sound 
(practiced what he preached).

BT AR

John in San Diego
On Aug 5, 2004, at 9:04 PM, Gail Grainger wrote:

> Let's not sling any mud at Melvil. :) The Dewey Decimal System is 
> still an
> amazing way to classify books, web sites, or any other kind of 
> information.
> I would certainly forgive him if he couldn't write prose. 128 years 
> after
> the DDC was introduced, it is still a great way to classifyinformation.
> Gail
>> Okay, if you really want to see phonetic spelling, check out some of
>> the writing of Melvil Dewey, the guy that gave us the "Dewey Decimal
>> System of classifying books (library). He was a true believer in
>> spelling phonetically, his prose is damn near unreadable.
>>
>> BTW, phonics rocks!
>>
>> John in San Diego
>
> -- 
> Gail Shea Grainger
> Librarian, Chesterfield School, Chesterfield, NH
> Dewey Browse --K-12 Web site cataloged by Dewey Decimal Classification
> http://www.deweybrowse.org ggrainger at deweybrowse.org