Example sentences for: spellings

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

  • A comparison with some other languages, particularly languages with a largely phonetic spelling system--(German, Italian, Spanish)-- shows that this range of nonstandard spellings is an added bonus that our quirky English spelling system has given to the language.

  • 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.

  • But curiously, over the years the names revert to their original spellings.

  • synonyms: neigh/whinny, allow/ permit, change/alter, transform/metamorphose , or to a word that has two accepted spellings which are somewhat different in pronunciation, as negotiate/ negociate, dived/dove, wold/weald, strap/strop .

  • And there we have another whole river to cross, since some of the best-known literary works have retained their historic titles, complete with outmoded spellings and punctuations.


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