Example sentences for: spellers

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

  • Because English spelling is often unrelated to its pronunciation and inconsistent with it, the majority of spellers were used as teaching tools in schools; but there was also an opportunity to acquaint adults with accepted spelling forms (just as there is today, among the bad speller's dictionaries).

  • Though it is no Iliad , all young spellers know the rhyme mnemonic

  • For the most part, despite the occasional campaigning for linguistic liberalism (aimed, obviously, at 20th- and, presumably, 21st-century readers), what emerges is an engaging picture of concerned speakers of English, some of them pedants trying to establish (or preserve) some purity in the language, the remainder readers of the works published by the former in the shape of grammars, usage guides, pronunciation guides, spellers, etc.


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