How To Use Spelling In A Sentence
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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 :
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Gone are the spelling rules that bedeviled many students' days.
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The internet is spelling the end of activities from being able to read a map to putting together a physical photo album.
The Sun
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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.
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The voice is Kelly's throughout, down to the lack of punctuation, eccentric spellings and curious syntax.
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Did she use to have long hair? Note that the correct spelling is use to, not 'used to'.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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As I entered, checked and rechecked the titles and names, my main concern was spelling and correct typeface and color.
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The nine-year-old had just spelt the word "sergeant" correctly at her school's spelling bee when her father, a sergeant serving in Iraq, appeared from behind a curtain.
NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
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The original, of course, was not written in English, and the spelling used ( "instil") is not uncommon.
Slate Magazine
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Web sites can program their search engines to respond to common misspellings.
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Are you interested in helping adults with reading, writing, spelling or numeracy?
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I think that we all deserve pats on the back for retaining the spelling knight after losing the silent velar fricative that once started the word, and for successfully mastering learning the various sound sequences that that master of disguise ough can hide (bough, trough, plough, through, tough, etc.).
Preposterous Apostrophes VII: Why Won’t Willn’t Work? « Motivated Grammar
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Then there are still the misspellings and unknown words.
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All accompanied by some dodgy spelling and hyperbolic punctuation.
Times, Sunday Times
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ROBERTS: Unbelievable, also the spelling bee, the annual spelling bee wrapped up last night, the winning word serrefine.
CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2007
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Indeed, one has to wonder for a community that has spawned scores of spelling bee champions and science finalists, but has painfully few athletes, runners and players.
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The problem with "scop" to me is that the reader will tend to think it's pronounced as "skop" - even if you have an appendix/note explaining OE spelling conventions.
Archaic terminology in historical fiction
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Musical literacy requires knowledge of major and minor scales, key signatures, intervals and triad spelling.
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It's certainly not built the way I would have gone about it something like interlingua but with more phonemic spelling and more creole like grammar but it gets the job done.
Languagehat.com: REPRESSIVE ESPERANTO.
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Teddy Roosevelt endorsed an effort to remove spellings that many Americans perceived to be cumbersome and illogical from the English language as used in America.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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This includes some variable spelling, e.g. crather -- crathur, plase -- plaze.
Live to be Useful or, The Story of Annie Lee and her Irish Nurse
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It means that he can retire from spelling to focus on pursuing a career path in quantum physics.
Times, Sunday Times
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But even the cutesy spelling of the store's name couldn't keep it afloat; the space has now reinvented itself as Spirit Halloween superstore.
Harmon Leon: Do All Closed Businesses in SF Resurrect as Halloween Superstores?
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He has difficulty with spelling and reading, and it takes him several minutes to perform simple functions such as knotting a tie.
Latest News Breaking News and Current News from the UK and World Telegraph
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James Forsyth on CoffeeHouse in congratulating Osborne for his intervention describes him as having been in the past "a woose", need SeanT's views on correct spelling surely its "a wuss"? and anyway he isn't going anywhere soon
Politicalbetting.com
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But the particular conditions for a speed blog or 'splog' are that it must be 20 words or less, and be written without bothering to check for spelling or grammer.
Archive 2007-02-01
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The conventions of spelling will become looser.
Times, Sunday Times
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For some Dene language groups there are at present competing writing systems and different spelling practices.
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This red delaine I wore to a spelling bee when I was about sixteen and I got a book for a prize for standing up next to last.
Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'
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There were so many possible misspellings of the word beige (baje, biege, beyge, baige, bayje, for starters) and I kept getting it wrong on my weekly Outfit Charts.
Progressive Bloggers
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Indeed, the dubitable claim of a lack of similarity between Willy and Harry is clearly null and void - one merely need examine the spellings of said names!
Making Light: Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again
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I really enjoy the poetry found in a word, in it's sound, spelling and history of meaning no matter what language ... thank you Denise for your beautiful images this morning and also to Kristin's accent tingeing her "rrrs" suggesting foreign lands and other stories ...
Terroir - French Word-A-Day
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At this point, I have a staggering amount of data, and it's been invaluable in dispelling myth, particularly in assisting me to name and claim classism and racism as it permeates my family culture.
Archive 2009-08-01
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I could easily imagine Aaron Spelling bumping into Hackman at the Playboy Club and badgering him into a quick walk-on.
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Clearly a name that is easy to spell backwards or forwards is an advantage if spelling isn't your thing.
The Sun
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The three deaf brothers in the family all used fingerspelling extensively (of English). They also used a dialect of ASL and some Manually Coded English as well.
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A sensible spelling reform as opposed to revolution of English spelling would eliminate the unpredictable pronunciations and the homographic heterophones, making English spellng as usable as French spelling.
Today’s “Today” | Linguism
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That was, by the way and a propos of nothing, one of the few words that I had difficulty in spelling as a child.
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The spelling is only half the problem - Must we now say "pointe" speaking through our nose with a subtle hint of a "w"’ when referring to the new complex.
North Pointe Development Under Study at cvillenews.com
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They suggest that their evidence based refutations of erroneous beliefs commonly expressed by immunisation defaulters are useful in dispelling their concerns.
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WASHINGTON - Frank Neuhauser, who in 1925 won the first U.S. national spelling bee with the word "gladiolus," has died.
Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
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the spelling was first affected, but latterly the meaning also
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English spelling is difficult because syllable sounds change with the variation of stress.
Times, Sunday Times
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She knows how to spell "conniption," too, and that's what earned the Charleston Middle School seventh-grader the title at the Regional Spelling Bee.
Undefined
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Typing or spelling has never been my schtick.
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Later mythologizers would try to legitimize the family's regal pretensions by claiming descent from the Banquo of Shakespeare's "Macbeth"—which was nonsense, as Mr. Massie explains: The name "Stewart," as it was rendered before Mary Stuart adopted the French spelling, indicated the family's original status, as stewards of the royal revenues.
Servants To Masters
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The propriety of his magical lady's injunction not to read can only be equalled by his candid acknowledgment of his independence of the trammels of spelling, although, to use his own elegant phrase, "'twas his neckverse at
Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1
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But they are not as big a turn-off as bad punctuation and spelling.
Times, Sunday Times
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Let's see-" a co-worker said, leaning over and respelling the name.
The Bear and the Dragon
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(However, I am refusing to use the too-smarmy spelling of "vampyre" and "vyrus" that permeates the book.)
REVIEW: Already Dead by Charlie Huston
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On your CV make sure everything is typographically perfect and that there are no spelling mistakes.
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In the evening, he felt useless and frustrated in helping Mark complete spelling and math assignments.
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Perhaps they might also reintroduce spelling and punctuation.
Times, Sunday Times
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What's the spelling of your family name, sir?
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`I didn't make the finals in the class seven's spelling bee.
ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
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English spelling is difficult because syllable sounds change with the variation of stress.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whatever they keyed in was read back to them by the computer, complete with any wrong spellings, which encouraged them to make sure everything was correct.
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It must be possible to encourage creative expression and to correct spelling mistakes.
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Before correctly spelling "hierarchy," for example, 12-year-old Abigail Spitzer of El Paso, Texas, asked the judges whether the word derived from the Greek root "hieros," meaning sacred.
Spellers challenged in national bee's early rounds
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The spelling of our language in respect to the pronunciation is also wonderfully defective, though perhaps less so than that of the French; as the words slaughter and laughter are pronounced totally different, though spelt alike.
Note XV
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They hacked and sliced at one another till there was no meaning left, only a confusion of bloodthirsty syllables spelling out absurdity.
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It is worth spelling out what spectators hope for when they pay top dollar for elite sport.
Times, Sunday Times
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The phonetic form and spelling and the derivation are alike unsettled, the uncertainty of the latter involving that of the former.
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The funny part is that "beastiality" is a misspelling.
Doggdot.us
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The student must write these using correct spelling and grammar or the answer will be counted wrong.
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I felt a kind of qualm of faintness and downsinking about my heart and stomach, to the dispelling of which I took a thimbleful of spirits, and, tying my red comforter about my neck, I marched briskly to the session-house.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction
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Give her congrats for winning that all-state spelling bee.
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Perhaps it is actually a canny psychological technique for dispelling any last minute doubts.
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Here are the final 15 words competitors were asked to spell at the Camera Regional Spelling Bee. vicariously propellable surrealist cosmetician duncical plummet absolution comandante roodebok dachshund egregious archipelago
Boulder Daily Camera Most Viewed
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In both your resume and cover letter, proper grammar and correct spelling are indispensable.
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You once again critiqued my grammar and spelling without actually giving an example of poor grammar or spelling.
Think Progress » It Takes More Than A Cabinet Post
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But Indiana teenager David Tidmarsh is now the National Spelling Bee champ by correctly spelling -- bear with me -- alopecoid.
CNN Transcript Jun 4, 2004
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The problem is, I think, that respelling into German might make words fit more smoothly into German grammar, but it takes all the quien-es-mas-trendy? fun out of it.
Languagehat.com: DOWNGELOADET?
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Meanwhile, inside the Grand Hyatt's Independence Ballroom, 273 spellers celebrated the complexity of our language in all its glory, correctly spelling words like zaibatsu, vibrissae and biauriculate, according to The Associated Press.
Moultrie Observer Homepage
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The correct spelling of the word for stingy is tacaño.
Some Things I'll Never Learn (about living in Mexico)
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The paper was returned with only one red line, where he had corrected my spelling of 'in flagrante delicto'.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Obama administration and its new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness should outspokenly promote EPA regulation as a part of its jobs program and start dispelling the myths propagated by the EPA's opponents.
Brendan Smith: Obama Needs a Just Transition Taskforce
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My computer has a program which corrects my spelling.
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Efforts to sandardise English spellings have not been successful.
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He announced the winners of the spelling bee.
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It's interesting that over the past few years my spelling has certainly got a lot worse than it used to be.
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The semifinals of the 2010 Scripps National Spelling Bee kicked off at 10 a.m. Friday with the word "ostrichism.
Pool of National Spelling Bee competitors whittled down to 48
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One sign declared DWIN WITE U.S.A., a worse spelling error than the 1999 banner—my favorite—that mangled the word Satan to declare: “Down with the Great Stain!”
Let the Swords Encircle Me
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The spelling 'publically' is so widespread that spellchecking software accepts it.
Times, Sunday Times
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The copybook usually shows how the word is pronounced, accented and syllabized, and how standard spelling rules are invoked to determine its conventional spelling.
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The first small problem with the Reuters article is that the usual spelling for the language is ‘Pirahã’, with a tilde over the final /a/, indicating that the vowel is nasalized.
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The newspaper has a reputation for being littered with spelling mistakes.
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Per OED, known alternate spelling (along with ingulf and ingulph); an example of engulph quoted from an 1871 source. master and visiters [** typo: visitors] speak of the down-trodden
Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met
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Despite having to get used to American spellings she quickly took to the game, and continued to play on board an ocean liner as she crossed the Pacific to visit more cousins in Australia.
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Are you aware that you sometimes have spelling mistakes and grammatical errors in your posts?
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Component subskills in reading and spelling A characteristic feature of any skill is a hierarchical organisation of component subskills.
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President [[Teddy Roosevelt]] endorsed an effort to remove spellings that many Americans perceived to be cumbersome and illogical from the English language as used in America.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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The article was littered with spelling mistakes .
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So early as 1768 Benjamin Franklin had published his Scheme for a New Alphabet and a Reformed Mode of Spelling, with Remarks and Examples Concerning the Same, and an Enquiry into its Uses and induced a Philadelphia typefounder to cut type for it, but this scheme was too extravagant to be adopted anywhere, or to have any appreciable influence upon spelling.
Chapter 8. American Spelling. 2. The Influence of Webster
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She tried to cheer up the disappointed child when he failed to win the spelling bee
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Ah, your colleague, said Anil, crumpling aplum over his rice and spelling out the word as if she were an ESL student and he the instructor.
For the Sake of the Boy
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English spelling is difficult because syllable sounds change with the variation of stress.
Times, Sunday Times
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I adore felafel and can't tell you how much I appreciate you spelling out how to make them.
Recipe: Falafel (Φαλάφελ ή Ρεβυθοκεφτέδες)
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An unsatisfactory version of it appeared in 1928, without notes and edited by a descendant who "softened Cresswell's opinions and actions," according to historians Harold B. Gill Jr. and George M. Curtis III, who give us Cresswell in decidedly unsoftened form, complete with the improvisational spelling and punctuation of the time.
Revolution Road Trip
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To investigate Penthorum Chinese Pursh for dispelling effects of alcohol in mice, the disappearing status of righting reflex was recorded and the concentration of ethanol in blood was measured.
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Its funny how the people get my sirname spelling wrog: may name is Wienand :
Beach Light final & Drity Beauty ads
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Encourage peer conferencing about spelling on written work as well as during writing workshops.
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Paul Hill: you'd also think he'd notice the other Blaydon is spelt differently, seeing as how he picked you up on spelling.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Spelling improvement can facilitate reading and spelling processes that work by eye as well as by ear, and directly represent meaning visually on the page as well as worked out by phonic decoding of the words.
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This work is dedicated to Penny Vale who, in addition to listening to my theories of development and readings, waded stoically through reams of printed notes and sheets correcting typos and spelling mistakes.
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This misspelling had been tackled earlier by Chast, who pointed out that Laennec, a native of Brittany, did not write his name with a diaeresis in his publications.
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Variations between the British and American editions include a certain amount of translation (lolly becomes popsicle), the respelling of a sound effect (` wop! 'becomes ` whop!' throughout) and an extra 400 words are added to chapter 21, adapted from radio Episode Ten, concerning ` Belgium 'as term of profanity.
Don't Panic
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He hadn't switched on the light for fear of dispelling the fragile new world he had created, but now he was anxious to look about him.
PROSECUTOR
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Secondly, the language is riddled with grammatical errors, spelling mistakes and inappropriate expressions.
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A Swindon schoolgirl who narrowly missed out on getting top prize in a national spelling competition says she is determined to win next year.
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I support and uphold the norms of standard written English in spelling, punctuation, word usage and grammar.
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Marry ofter winks at the spelling mistakes in her homework.
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The rule which I have tried to follow has been this: when the word has been hopelessly Latinised, as 'Phoebus' has been, I have left it as it usually stands; but in other cases I have tried to keep the plain Greek spelling, except when it would have seemed pedantic, or when, as in the word 'Tiphus,' I should have given an altogether wrong notion of the sound of the word.
Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children
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We would run through the text looking for Australian spelling, any Australian slang and sayings, and other ‘Australianisms’ including Australian-specific metaphors or similes.
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Moreover, the practice of building vocabulary through weekly spelling tests in elementary school has been largely abandoned.
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Yet the 'supercede' spelling does have etymological justification and it appears in the dictionary.
Times, Sunday Times
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Betty : I bet you settle for the spelling bee. At least they don't hurt your ears.
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There are guides to correct grammar, spelling and punctuation and examples from great writers.
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Mark Liberman has an interesting post over at Language Log about the spelling of interjections and onomatopoetic words in comic strips.
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A Google News search over the past month shows 414 stories with references to "ahoy," 150 to "avast," 76 to "walk the plank," 61 to "Davy Jones," and 165 to varying spellings of
Blogs navigation
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Ring the spelling mistakes with red ink.
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Much of the time, it's just a misspelling-for example, "forbode" instead of "forebode,
CJR
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And the New Zealand spinach entry doesn't give its Maori name (puha) and there are lots of spelling mistakes in that entry (I know, I'm picky!)
The Food Timeline :: Rebecca Blood
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I'd like to start the speech by dispelling a few rumours that have been spreading recently.
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Who was the UK General in the First World War who rose from the ranks - dispelling the idea that Edwardian Britain wasn't a meritocracy?
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CARMEL -- The new sponsor of the 2010 Hamilton County Spelling Bee, Williams Comfort Air in Carmel, is expanding a recognition program started a year ago to recognize high school seniors whose deeds might go unnoticed.
IndyStar.com Top Stories
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They had to sit down when they got a spelling wrong.
Times, Sunday Times
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Kyanite is the variant spelling of the original name of this mineral, cyanite.
Kyanite
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What I find so attractive about poteau(x) rose(s) (lit. "pink pole") as an equivalent for "eggcorn" is not it is a common misspelling for pot aux roses (it isn't; the substitutions are overwhelmingly jocular, including in film and literature), but that it has undergone the double eggcornification process, just like æcern-acorn-eggcorn.
Languagehat.com: POT AUX ROSES.
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People are not likely to welcome being helped with their spelling and grammar.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nürnberg is the correct spelling – anything else is auslander gibberish …
Firedoglake » Bush’s Favorite Democrat Wows the Connecticut Press — Again
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Our capital city is also full of bushtit, if you change spelling a bit.
Toronto Sun
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On April 22, Mr. Manzo of Capstone, the Chrysler adviser, sent a note -- like some of the emails, containing misspellings -- to Matthew Feldman, a member of the Obama auto team, to complain that Fiat "is trying to be squirely" about sharing technology.
U.S. Pushed Fiat Deal on Chrysler
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After nine rounds of scrunch-faced spellings and a few gleefully lucky guesses, Michael Whalon terminated his competition with "eviscerate" yesterday in the 35th annual Richmond Times-Dispatch Regional Spelling Bee.
News for Richmond Times-Dispatch
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Feel free to let me know about all of my spelling and grammar mistakes below.
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After correctly spelling the word "sergeant," Skylar was asked if there were any special sergeants in her life.
Breaking News: CBS News
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arguments" the term venerable is used instead of mouldy, and hallowed instead of devilish; whereas there is nothing properly venerable or antique about a language which is not yet four hundred years old, and about a jumble of imbecile spellings which were grotesque in the beginning, and which grow more and more grotesque with the flight of the years.
Chapters from My Autobiography
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The pattern recognition technique enables the computer to cope with a certain amount of operator error, minor misspellings make no difference.
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He suggests "a really useful and minimal spelling reform" based on his rules "I met a traveller from an anteke land hu sed: Tue vast and trunkless legs of stone..." and ends with a section of unyielding oddities, the last of which is a word that's been discussed here:While we're at it, could we please fix the word ginkgo, which is not only difficult and irregular, but doesn't reflect any proper Japanese word?
Languagehat.com: ENGLISH SPELLING.
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Of course, in a sense, we all start from scratch in childhood, and children who start with a language like Spanish, where the spelling is almost perfectly phonetic, pick up reading much, much sooner than children who have to learn all the crazy rules and exceptions of English spelling.
Ghoti out of Water « Isegoria
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A number of German words have become current in general South Australian English (mettwurst, leberwurst or liverwurst, and the ubiquitous fritz, for example, all describing types of sausage), but spelling, especially in words containing - ie -, is often so uncertain that a correspondent in the local newspaper felt obliged to point out that a Wiener Schnitzel has nothing to do with wine and a Liedertafel need not be sorrowful.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4
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Courses of instruction listed in the 1846 Catalogue include: Spelling, grammar, arithmetic, geography, uranography, composition, botany, physiology, algebra, natural philosophy, metal and moral science, rhetoric, chemistry, geometry, criticism, history, logic, trigonometry, astronomy, mineralogy, Butler's analogy, and evidences of Christianity.
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Some editors prefer not to overrule an author's own spellings, while Gabler is an eager emender.
More on the New 'Ulysses'
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Tom's spelling is well below average .
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Charley shot off the spelling of "kahuna" before making a mad dash off the stage.
Undefined
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A spelling bee is a competition in which people try to correctly spell words.
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Uses "foetid," spelling from the wrong branch of English, and I don't know why he lets this fog into the text.
Dbqp: visualizing poetics
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Low literacy in Haiti contributes to inconsistent spelling of patients' names and addresses.
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I am particularly fascinated by the non-French spelling of his forename.
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Are the spelling and grammar bad?
Times, Sunday Times
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I don't regret having read them (although I hate when black jive is indicated through misspellings like "sho 'nuf").
Breakfast in Bed
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The lettering on that had strongly resembled a monkey scrawl, while the spelling and grammar were equally atrocious.
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There was a time when "gaol" was the accepted spelling in Australia.
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Debate is not about a bunch of catty, uninformative, "Fox-News"-like blabber about occasional spelling mistakes, errors in academic trivia and how their knowledge in NewSpeak do's-and-don'ts (e.g. don't use "hypothesize" for anyone other than the originator of an idea no matter how far buried in the recesses of time, apparently) empowers them with a metaphysical prescience to evaluate in some small way who is 'serious' in an academic field in absence of mindful studiousness and profound contemplation of the (un)read material.
Archive 2008-02-01
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He did his work at home: spelling lists, book reports, the math book full of multiplication and division problems.
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The spelling of English is often puzzling.
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Misspellings occur even in highly regular and consistent orthographic systems.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's how the word is spelled in English, and the idea of respelling it in every single reference book with the concomitant realphabetization to accommodate some people's romanticism... well, I just don't think it will fly.
Languagehat.com: RENAMING THE HAN.
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: All-Parish Spelling Bee winner correctly spells 'adagio'
Thenewsstar.com - Local News
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One of the tasks I saw was a spelling contest where the participants misspelt everything: faux pas became 'fohpa,' cyst became 'sest,' beguile 'begyal' and so on.
Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'
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In the UK and other countries using British spelling, only aluminium is used.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Testing question SUCKS!
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A proofer is a guy that goes over the translation, checks for spelling and grammer mistakes as well as logic and punctuation errors.
Baka Updates Manga
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Week 848, rhopalic sentences, in which each successive word is one letter longer: So Joe, only you're having trouble spelling Murkowski.
Report from Week 894
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When Sameer Mishra correctly spelled guerdon last May to win the 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee, he became the sixth Indian-American winner in the past 10 years.
Indian Americans: The New Model Minority
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An overlap complicates things slightly: forego is a variant spelling of forgo (“abstain, renounce, do without”) but the reverse is not the case, so avoiding this variation will help retain a useful distinction.
Forego and forgo
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Indeed, unless some such suprasensible and unifying principle were available, phonetic spelling would speedily perish in an infinity of degenerate variations.
Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge
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The following videoclip shows 13-year old Sameer Mishra correctly spelling the word numnah, which is another word for numdah and means coarse felt, a horse’s saddle pad made from this or an embroidered rug made from this.
Archive 2010-06-01
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That said, I'm planting the Cone of Smugness firmly on my head to point out two recent spelling errors -- bathyscape should be bathyscaphe, and back when you were talking about randonneurs, you misspelled pretension with a t in the middle instead of an s.
Worst of Craigslist: Delicious, Savory Bike Love
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Methinks the hypercritic might say there should not be two words of the same spelling and sound and meaning, to make the rhyme, as in the lines ending with meet. '
Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney
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Spelling errors in the title notwithstanding (they seem confused about their plural and singular references), it was a good effort by a group young idealist who are part of the Bureau of Education and Knowledge Society of Gerakan.
SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
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The class are doing/having a spelling test today.
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Please excuse any misspellings or nonsensical happenings… I have my moments.
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I was going to use the same description, but was not sure on the spelling; I was leaning towards "codswallop" though.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Isabel Sublette spelled "canape" and "rudimentary" to win the Ventura County Spelling Bee Monday night at CSU Channel Islands in Camarillo.
Ventura County Star Stories
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A key point is that the primary coding scheme is based on pronunciation rather than on spelling.
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To the general public, dactylology or finger spelling is the sign-language, or the basis of that language, but to the profession there is no relation between the two methods of communication.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886
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The uncannily accurate spelling correction and word prediction on Windows Phone?
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In which case Arthuret could just be a phonetic spelling of the original name, not even really an anglicisation.
The battle of Arfderydd or Arthuret
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Of how much confusion the spelling which used to be so common, ‘satyr’ for ‘satire’, is at once the consequence, the expression, and again the cause; not indeed that this confusion first began with us {279}; for the same already found place in the Latin, where ‘satyricus’ was continually written for ‘satiricus’ out of a false assumption of the identity between the Roman _satire_ and the Greek _satyric_ drama.
English Past and Present
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Images portraying individuals with disabilities also as parents, teachers, sales people, managers, business owners, doctors/nurses or lawyers, would aid in dispelling the helpless/dependent stereotype often facing people with disabilities.
Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt » 2007 » April
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Don't be so careless about / with spelling.
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Hey Butch, if Dutch goes back to school, make sure he enrolls in English 101; his spelling is a little rusty ...
McDonnell holds the edge in Virginia gov fundraising race
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Repetition is everywhere, as are misuses, misspellings, tautologies and inconsistencies.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Why is the valorization of a contingency beyond necessity, as we'll see Agamben defining it, not routed back through the heightened literary convolutions of "phonetic spelling" after all, in instances more ambitious and self-searching than that of Stoker's Cockney botcher?
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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Definitions of spelling pronunciation, speech = parole, phoneme, and tagmemics, were good, though tagmeme, a difficult word to define briefly, did not seem quite to meet either Bloomfield's or Pike's use of the term.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 4
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There is no specific, comparative testing at 16 about spelling and punctuation.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is called the "autolyse", or something of the sort. unsure on spelling.
The Bread Question
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I was winning science fairs left and right, getting my picture in the paper for spelling bees and peewee football games, and many more little achievements of mine.
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Modern spelling would be "tolled," as in a bell tolling the hour, imho.
Many Happy Returns!
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Thanks to the editor, you're spared from my weekly misspellings and grammatical errors.
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The book concentrates on how to teach children about the morphemic structure of words and on the beneficial effects of this teaching for children’s spelling and for the breadth of their vocabulary.
Improving Literacy by Teaching Morphemes « Books « Literacy News
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This apothegm seems close to (what I guess was) the intended spirit of his comment, though it can't be used directly as a predicate applied to ‘the spelling reforms’, thus requiring additional restructuring of the phrase.
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You don't know what you've started when you invent a name whose spelling doesn't indicate a pronunciation in any known human language.
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Check through your text and correct all grammatical and spelling errors.
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It must be possible to encourage creative expression and to correct spelling mistakes.
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You are also entitled to bedevil your contributions to this blog with a wide variety of spelling, grammatical and other non-typo errors which betray various things about you and by which you may be judged … should you wish to. on April 2, 2010 at 12: 24 am Vetnurse
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