OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 3027

spelling

/ˈspɛlɪŋ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
deletreo • espeleo • ortografía
The act, practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography.
For the practical use of spelling comes in writing.
Spelling was invented by man and, like other human inventions, is capable of development and improvement by man in the direction of simplicity, economy, and efficiency.
espeleo • ortografía
The manner of spelling of words; correct spelling.
Because Elizabethan spelling was fluid, editors feel free to ‘modernize’ (correct) the spelling in the quartos and the Folio. But how is one to spell Rosencratz or Guildenstern, wh…
espeleo • grafía
A specific spelling of a word.
[p 253] *excellent Q2’s ‘extent’ is generally dismissed as an error, probably a mis-reading of ‘exlent’, a common spelling at this time. [p 269] reverend The spellings ‘reuerent’ (…
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