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Noah Webster presents in The American Spelling Book containing the Rudiments of the English Language a standardization of the English language. Underscored by his proposed sets of rules and guildlines, however, is an understanding of the association between good morals and language use.

Despite the presupposed notion this would be an agent of education, this book is latent with meaningful passages which indoctrinate the reader just as much into a system of language, but a social order with strictly bound social identities.