Editing English-language spelling reform (section)

=== Successful reform proposers ===

* [[Samuel Johnson]], poet, wit, essayist, biographer, critic and eccentric, broadly credited with the standardization of English spelling in his [https://web.archive.org/web/20060901063613/http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/preface.html ''Dictionary of the English Language'' (1755)].
* [[Noah Webster]], author of the first important American dictionary, believed that Americans should adopt simpler spellings where available and recommended it in his [[s:A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language|''A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language'']] [[s:A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language|(1806)]].