spelling：拼写；拼字；拼法 v. 拼写；意味着（ spell 的 ing 形式）；迷住 n. (Spelling) 人名； ( 英 ) 斯佩林 语料库共检中 459 条：美剧 35 · 电影 14 · 原著 312 · 演讲 98
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I come now to another part of your letter, which is the orthography, if I may call bad spelling ORTHOGRAPHY. You spell induce, ENDUCE; and grandeur, you spell grandURE; two faults of which few of my housemaids would have been guilty. I must tell you that orthography, in the true sense of the word, is so absolutely necessary for a man of letters; or a gentleman, that one false spelling may fix ridicule upon him for the rest of his life; and I know a man of quality, who never recovered the ridicule of having spelled WHOLESOME without the w.英文原著 · 《Letters to His Son, 1750》
It was most deservedly abandoned with execration. No American editor would print it to-day. But witness the new and excellent effect produced with bad spelling by Mr. Ring W. Lardner. Here, however, the case is altered; it is not the falseness of Mr. Lardner's spelling that is the amusing feature of it, but the truth of it. When he writes, "dear friend, Al, I would of rote sooner," etc., he is truer to actual sound and intonation than the lexicon.英文原著 · 《My Discovery of England》
The handwriting and the spelling of this journal are very bad. It abounds in tautology and repetitions. Facts are sometimes inverted in the order of time; but to remedy all these defects it would have been necessary to recast the whole, which would have completely changed the character of the work. The spelling and punctuation were, however, corrected in the original, and some explanatory notes added.英文原著 · 《The Memoirs of Louis》
Old Digger was useless. Matthew Hale was sound, but stupid. Everything pointed to her brother Philip. No sooner had she made up her mind than Barbara turned to her writing-table and penned a laborious letter to the Rev. Jeremy. Poor Barbara! Spelling was not her strongest point, nor, indeed, did anyone then mind whether spelling was good or bad. She wrote as follows:
DEARE AND REVEREND SIR,
"My father has riden to London and I would faine not be without manlie companie in so grate an house (olde Digger being worthie and trustie but a lyttel deaf and stiffe).英文原著 · 《The Slowcoach》
103, note) has "BIDRUR" as Abdur Razzak's spelling. The place alluded to was probably Bednur. [132] -- This was in A.H. 846, and corresponds to the end of April A.D. [133] -- Below, p. [134] -- I.E. about seven miles. It is actually about eight miles if measured from the extreme south point of the first line of defence northwards to the river.英文原著 · 《A Forgotten Empire-Vijayanagar》
[387] -- Evidently the god GANESA. [388] -- "Bisnaga," the Portuguese rendering of VIJAYANAGAR, the "city of victory." The spellings adopted by different writers have been endless. We have Beejanugger and Beejnugger in the translations of Firishtah; Bisnagar, Bidjanagar, Bijanagher, amongst the Portuguese; Bicheneger In the writings of the Russian Nikitin; Bizenegalia in those of the Italian Nicolo dei Conti. [389] -- BUQUEYROIS. The word implies something dug out, as opposed so redoubts, which would be built up. [390] -- Dakhan. [391] -- This is Nagalapur, the modern Hospett (EPIG. IND., iv.英文原著 · 《A Forgotten Empire-Vijayanagar》
That time I said it with the K and W spelling.美剧 · 《Billions》