[reaganaut1]

Doing a search of "speller" books by Webster on Amazon, I see, for example,

The Original Blue Back Speller (Vocabulary of a Warrior) by Noah Webster (Hardcover - Oct. 2003)

The American Speller: An Adaptation of Noah Webster's Blue-Backed Speller by Noah Webster and Barbara Cooney (Hardcover - 1960)

and of course there are many "Webster" dictionaries. I wonder if any homeschoolers here use "Webster" books for spelling.

[whattajoke]

FWIW, Noah Webster’s house is a pretty decent museum here in CT. They even host beer events with Sam Adams beer and celebrate the two patriots.

And the huge costly new “mixed use” shopping/restaurant behemoth is called Blue Back Square, in deference to Webster’s Blue Back Speller. (I hate it.)

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way
of spelling words.
We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes
alike.
Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.
I have a correspondent whose letters are always a
refreshment to me, there is such a breezy unfettered
originality about his orthography.
He always spells Kow with a large K. Now that is just
as good as to spell it with a small one.
It is better.
It gives the imagination a broader field, a wider scope.
It suggests to the mind a grand, vague, impressive new
kind of a cow.

MARK TWAIN

- speech at a spelling match, Hartford, Connecticut,
May 12, 1875. Reported in the Hartford Courant,
May 13, 1875