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spelling Noun 1. the way a word is spelt: the British spelling of `theatre' 2. a person's ability to spell: my spelling used to be excellent Spelling See also language. the practice or defect of incorrect spelling. — cacographer, n. — cacographic, cacographical, adj. a phonetic spelling system in which for each sound the letter or digraph most commonly found representing that sound is used. Rare. the study of nonphonetic spelling. — hetericist, n. 1. the practice of spelling in a way contrary to standard usage. 2. the use of the same letters or combinations of letters to represent different sounds, as in English tough and dough. — heterographic, heterographical, adj. 1. the art of writing words according to accepted usage; correct spelling. 2. that part of grammar that treats of letters and spelling. 3. a method of spelling. — orthographer, n. — orthographic, adj. any phonetic spelling, writing, or shorthand system. — phonog-rapher, phonographist, n. — phonographic, phonographical, adj.
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spelling noun orthography, Translations spelling [ˈspɛlɪŋ] spell n → Schreibweise f; (ability) → Rechtschreibung f; spelling mistake spell → Rechtschreibfehler m How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Nevertheless, like all fervid writing, the task was done in less time than usual, and if the spelling differed from Mrs. Wharton made extensive stylistic, punctuation, and spelling changes and revisions between the serial and book publication, and more than thirty subsequent changes were made after the second impression of the book edition had been run off. In the Polynesian words used in this volume,--except in those cases where the spelling has been previously determined by others,--that form of orthography has been employed, which might be supposed most easily to convey their sound to a stranger. |
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