Example sentences for: respelling

How can you use “respelling” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Although it might be seen as commendable to make the interpretation of pronunciation symbols as easy as possible for the laziest users, I have little sympathy for the policy: in most cases, those who are too lazy to learn even the rudimentary respelling systems used in popular dictionaries (like the various college and desk dictionaries) are also too lazy to look up the pronunciation of a name or word, as is evidenced daily in the utterances of newscasters and announcers.

  • The so-called simplified respelling is what I usually refer to as the Moo Goo Gai Pan school of phonetic transcription, concoted for those too lazy to learn even the simplest rudiments of phonetic transcription (which used to be taught in high-school English Courses during the few hours spent on How to Use the Dictionary).

  • Bunk is a shortening of bunkum, itself a respelling for Buncomber County, North Carolina, whose congressional representative once remarked that he was “only talking for Buncombe.”


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