Excerpt from The Teacher's Word Book It should be noted further that this is not a spelling list. If it is used as an aid in the construction of spelling lists, the derived forms in s, ies, ly, er, r, est, st, s, ed, d, ing, and n should be inserted. They may offer notable difficulty in spelling even when easily read and understood by derivation. A full account of the methods by which this list was selected, of the reliability of the credits attached to the words, and Of the uses to which the list may be put, will be found in an article of thirty-seven pages, entitled Word Knowledge in the Ele mentary School, by E. L. Thorndike, published in the teachers college record for September, For convenience in certain uses, there is added on pages 127-134 a list of the 2500 words of most wide and frequent occurrence, arranged in five sets of 500 each. 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.