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Calls for the elimination of yat from the Russian spelling began with Trediakovsky in the eighteenth century.
A proposal for spelling reform from the Russian Academy of Science in 1911 included, among other matters, the systematic elimination of the yat, but was declined at the highest level.
According to Lev Uspensky's popular linguistics book A Word On Words ( Слово о словах ), yat was " the monster-letter, the scarecrow-letter [...] which was washed with the tears of countless generations of Russian schoolchildren ".
( This book was published in the Soviet period, and accordingly it expressed strong support towards the 1918 reform.
) The schoolchildren had to memorize very long nonsense verses made up of words with:
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