spelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɛlɪŋ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈspɛlˑɪŋ(ɡ)/
rhymes: -ɛlɪŋ
Forms: form: spellings
Etymology: 1400s, from spell (verb) + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: For the practical use of spelling comes in writing.
ref: 1904, Andrew Dickson White, Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, page 43:
text: Spelling was invented by man and, like other human inventions, is capable of development and improvement by man in the direction of simplicity, economy, and efficiency.
ref: 1920, Henry Gallup Paine, Handbook of Simplified Spelling, New York: Simplified Spelling Board, page 1:
text: I knew that Kriciak, the inspector who was supervising me for the Marshals Service, was going to go nuts when I told him that I wanted to allow Landon to participate in soccer and spelling.
ref: 2001, w: Stephen White, The Program, New York: Dell, page 66:
glosses: The act, practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography.
examples: text: Because Elizabethan spelling was fluid, editors feel free to ‘modernize’ (correct) the spelling in the quartos and the Folio. But how is one to spell Rosencratz or Guildenstern, where the spelling varies, not only from text to text, but even within texts?
ref: 2006, William Shakespeare, edited by Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor, Hamlet, London: Arden Shakespeare, page 88:
glosses: The manner of spelling of words; correct spelling.
examples: text: [p 253] *excellent Q2’s ‘extent’ is generally dismissed as an error, probably a mis-reading of ‘exlent’, a common spelling at this time.
[p 269] reverend The spellings ‘reuerent’ (Q2) and ‘Reuerend’ (F) were interchangeable at this time.
[p 466] Guildensterne and Rosincrance are F’s consistent spellings.
ref: 2006, Wm. Shakespeare, Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor, eds., Hamlet, London: Arden Shakespeare
glosses: A specific spelling of a word.
examples: text: The boys were anxious for a spelling in the evening but I said no.
ref: 1860, Oscar Lawrence Jackson, The Colonel's Diary: Journals Kept Before and During the Civil War [1922], Sharon, Penn., p 23
text: How her face ust to look, in the twilight, / As I tuck her to spellin’; and she / Kep’ a-hummin’ that song ’tel I ast her, / Pine-blank, ef she ever missed me!
ref: 1889, James Whitcomb Riley, “A’ Old Played-Out Song”, in Pipes O' Pan at Zekesbury, Indianapolis, Ind.: Bowen-Merrill, page 45:
text: So we'd sit with these girls during school hours, and we told them, if they'd slip off, that we'd get away, and we'd go to [the school] to a spelling.
ref: 2004, Carl Lindahl, editor, American Folktales: From the Collections of the Library of Congress, volume 1, Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, page 416:
glosses: A spelling test or spelling bee.
examples: text: The spelling of a pitch is strongly influenced by its harmonic and melodic context.
ref: 2004, Joshua Stoddard, Christopher Raphael, Paul E. Utgoff, Well-Tempered Spelling: A Key-Invariant Pitch Spelling Algorithm, page 1:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A choice of notation among enharmonic equivalents for the same pitch.
Hypernyms: english: precisely hypernymous but loosely synonymous
translation: precisely hypernymous but loosely synonymous
word: orthography
Derived terms: censored spelling
finger spelling
ICAO spelling alphabet
mis-spelling
Oxford spelling
phonetic spelling alphabet
spelling alphabet
spelling word
word-spelling alphabet
back-spelling
creative spelling
fingerspelling
inverse spelling
misspelling
pronunciation spelling
respell
respelling
reverse spelling
spell checker
spell-checker
spellchecker
spell check
spell-check
spellcheck
spelling bee
spelling checker
spelling pronunciation
spelling reform
spelling reformer