Example sentences for: spellings

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

  • When such spellings are used in signs and advertising for their eye-catching value, they are usually referred to as sensational spellings.

  • Sometimes, English words are given not only new spellings but also entirely new meanings.

  • Having recently exploded the myth about the supposed Yiddish origin of several of these words in articles in Jewish Linguistic Studies, I turned my attention to gunsel, in its various spellings.

  • For one thing, certain British spellings are retained, but those might have been left over from pre-Webster spelling reform: endeavour, moulding, humour; enamelling; fulfil .

  • In the Gaelic parts of Scotland and Ireland, the word for heather was fraoch , pronounced nearly like German fröch . There are many regional differences in Gaelic, and fraoch can be pronounced “FREWX” or “FRAWX” in some parts of Gaeldom, perhaps explaining some of the spellings that have come into English for health-related words like frawlin or fraughan for blueberry, and freuchan for the “reinforcing toe cap of a brogue” (shoe, not accent) to prevent excessive wear by the heather.


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