The Bible is full of words and names that can be hard to pronounce. Americans are a practical people, and several Americans have tried to make Bible reading easier by publishing “phonetic” Bibles. In 1848 Andrew Comstock of “Filadelfia” published a Bible with a “purfekt alfabet.” In 1855 the Longley brothers of “Sinsinati” produced a Bible with “fonetik spelin.”
