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Example sentences for: spellings
How can you use “spellings” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
' Chukker `period of polo play,' dhoti `loincloth,' dinghy, ganja `cannabis used for smoking,' khidmatgar `male waiter,' khuskhus, kutcha `crude, imperfect,' myna `species of bird,' puggaree `blight turban, scarf,' raggee `finger millet,' ryotwar `system of collecting land rents or taxes,' sambar `type of deer,' and zamindari `system of land holding' each have three other acceptable spellings.
Such distinctions are hard to substantiate and deny the fact that alternative spellings can serve the purpose of being eye-catching or distinctive, or even creating a social tie.
Recently Americanizing a British text using the American spelling checker in my Framework III program, I discovered that the program is ignorant of American preferred spellings, like labeled vs labelled, traveler vs traveller, though it catches travelling . What boots it to point out that many Americans are likewise ignorant of those “preferences”?
Both Byron's and Ruskin's wayward words are directly related to their modern equivalents but have essentially historic spellings.
The trouble with such “off” spellings and punctuations is that you really need to remember two extra things, on top of the little itself: first, that the title is “deviant,” and second, how it is deviant.