spelling

How To Use spelling In A Sentence

• The word has even appeared in the funny pages where Dilbert muttered a disconsolate "frack" - the original spelling before producers of the current show changed it to a four-letter word - after a particularly dumb order from his evil twit of a boss. Gazette.com :
• Gone are the spelling rules that bedeviled many students' days.
• The internet is spelling the end of activities from being able to read a map to putting together a physical photo album. The Sun
• Because the learner has become competent with the short vowels, consonants, and consonant blends, he or she can now concentrate on mastering the long-vowel spelling forms.
• The voice is Kelly's throughout, down to the lack of punctuation, eccentric spellings and curious syntax.
• Did she use to have long hair? Note that the correct spelling is use to, not 'used to'.
• In the small main lobby, there was an elevator with an out-of-order sign on it older than I was, an open door to a stairway, and a directory with little plastic letters spelling out the names of bail bondsmen and repo services on black felt. Free Excerpt 2/5: Book of Secrets by Chris Roberson
• With words like "nite" and "lite" having achieved semi-acceptable status as at least "alternate spellings," I suppose it's only a matter of time before "u" become official. Archive 2007-03-01
• Summary: Although staunch is the most common spelling of the adjective meaning “firm” and stanch is the most common spelling of the verb meaning “stop (the flow)”, both spellings are acceptable for both meanings. Stanching staunch prescriptivism « Motivated Grammar
• Graduate of a City Council graffiti-spelling workshop for street kids, he knew how to decode the slogans of the day, how to phase them and how to remix them.