His career at Eton came to an end after only two years, following an attack of scarlet fever, with his head master writing witheringly of him " Spelling ludicrous; even in words of one syllable the order of letters is often reversed ".
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""'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland retold in words of one syllable " "'is a retelling by J . C . Gorham of Lewis Carroll's novel, written in 1905 and published by A . L . Burt of New York.
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To make damn sure that even the historically naive and entirely unselfaware reader got the point, I appended a phony critical analysis of " Lord of the Swastika ", in which the psychopathology of Hitler's saga was spelled out by a tendentious pedant in words of one syllable.
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It might be entertaining, in fact, to see the contenders trading thesaurus-worthy insults-- mendacious, perfidious, flagitious, precipitate-- but it's not gonna happen; the RNC's entertaining efforts notwithstanding, we can expect to chug along toward November mostly in words of one syllable.
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Mrs J . C . Gorham produced three such works, " Gulliver's Travels in words of one syllable " ( 1896 ), " Alice's Adventures in Wonderland retold in words of one syllable " ( 1905 ), and " Black Beauty retold in words of one syllable " ( 1905 ).
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Mrs J . C . Gorham produced three such works, " Gulliver's Travels in words of one syllable " ( 1896 ), " Alice's Adventures in Wonderland retold in words of one syllable " ( 1905 ), and " Black Beauty retold in words of one syllable " ( 1905 ).
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Mrs J . C . Gorham produced three such works, " Gulliver's Travels in words of one syllable " ( 1896 ), " Alice's Adventures in Wonderland retold in words of one syllable " ( 1905 ), and " Black Beauty retold in words of one syllable " ( 1905 ).
