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

That seems to me to be a sensible approach, since the only way properly to investigate a surname is to go back through the male line as far as possible, noting the various spellings of the name, where the family was living in past centuries, and so on.
Let us take the matter of name spellings first, whether personal names or place names, real names or fictitious ones.
In a sense, it seems illogical that we have retained the historic spellings for Spenser's works yet use modern spellings for the titles of plays by his contemporary, William Shakespeare.
In the last century the Russians, for reasons that no one now seems quite sure of, took the name of a London railway station, Vauxhall, and made it their generic word for all railroad stations: vagzal . In much the same way, the Japanese word for a fashionable cut suit, sebiro , is a corruption of Savile Row . More recently, the French borrowed the English slang words jerk and egghead but gave them largely contrary meanings--namely, an egghead in France is not a brainy person but a dimwit, while jerk is a term of praise for an accomplished dancer--though at least they respect the spellings.
English has a wealth of modified spellings ranging from wot and rite, comin' and 'ad, yuh and gonna , snax and pleez , to thru and Xpelair .