There is also a family of phone (or sound) words: telephone, dictaphone, megaphone, audiphone, phonology, symphony, antiphony, euphonious, cacophonous, phonetic spelling.

Since the historical Uilcapampa is not geographically identical with the modern Vilcabamba, the name applied to this river and the old Spanish town at its source, I shall distinguish between the two by using the correct, official spelling for the river and town, viz., Vilcabamba; and the phonetic spelling, Uilcapampa, for the place referred to in the contemporary histories of the Inca Manco.

8.The important exercise of oral spelling is often very absurdly conducted.

Better spelling.

Words which may seem to be transcriber's typos, or otherwise suspect, but which are reproduced faithfully (archaic spellings, printer's typossometimes

Can I forget the erudite look with which, when he had been in vain trying to make out a black-letter text of Chaucer in the Temple Library, he laid it down and told me that "in those old books Charley, there is sometimes a deal of very indifferent spelling;" and seemed to console himself in the reflection!

64. Macaulay (Essays, ed. 1843, i. 365) ends a lively piece of criticism on Mr. Croker by saying:'It requires no Bentley or Casaubon to perceive that Philarchus is merely a false spelling for Phylarchus, the chief of a tribe.' See ante, i. 180.

Elizabeth Crowe Hannum (A); 2Jul64; R341180. Practise; good grammar, definite diction, plain pronunciation, literate letters, superior spelling, perfect punctuation.

Ardmagh or Armagh is only the anglicised spelling, adapted to English tongues and ears.

Jamieson's fault was not so much his broad Scotch as his over-fondness for archaisms, sometimes of mere spelling, which give rise to a needless obscurity.

But were it possible for all to become rapid spellers, another very important requisite is necessary before the system could be a perfect one, that is, the ability to read rapid spelling.

(There are also a number of words with 'unusual' spellings.

Please note that this text contains variant spellings of names and words sometimes inconsistent

The chief obstacle to a Frenchman or Englishman learning Russian is the difficult and confusing alphabet; the chief obstacle to anyone learning English is the irrational spelling.

Sunny tine spelling rhymes step by step with Betty and Jack.

But as the present century was in its second and third decades, the quadroones (for we must contrive a feminine spelling to define the strict limits of the caste as then established) came forth in splendor.

[Transcriber's notes: Obvious typographical errors that were not plausible as historical or phonetic spellings were corrected.

Our English forte ('Geniality is not his forte,' &c.) is altered from the French fort without even the advantage of either keeping the French sound or distinguishing the spoken word from our fort; but who proposes to sacrifice the reader's convenience by correcting the 'ignorant' spelling?

A SLAVE*** E-text prepared by Brett Koonce and Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders Transcriber's note: The inconsistent spellings of the original have been retained in this etext.

I also wrote to my parents telling them what they might look for in the mails, and cautioning them never to have it printed, for the writing was so ungrammatical and the spelling so incorrect that it would be no credit to me.

* "ITALIAN SPELLING.

[Greek: fnr] may, perhaps be read phi ny (as Latinised spelling of [Greek: nu]), rô, or finirô.

It assumes the Latinized spelling, "reporter."

The first is absolutely desirable and inevitable: the second is not only undesirable but impracticable, though this would not preclude a good deal of reasonable reform in our literary spelling in a phonetic direction.

So little was spelling attended to in the time of Elizabeth, that Dr. Johnson informs us, that on referring to Shakspeare's will, to determine how his name was spelt, he was found to have written it himself