58 Quotes About Spelling

Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that.

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The police have no leads as yet on the person or persons who painted obscene suggestions on the buildings. One store owner said he was going to leave a dictionary on a public bench so the vandals could at least spell the obscenities correctly.

A generation accustomed to relate much of its thought to spoken English may question whether even our words need remodelling as well as our spelling, if they are to be adequate for new purposes and ideas.

Really, it is unfair to say that English spelling is not an accurate rendering of speech. It is – it's only that it renders the speech of the 16th century.

If you take hyphens seriously, you will surely go mad.

One piece of wisdom a writer quickly learns ~ typos keep you humble.

The thing about elves is they've got no... begins with m," Granny snapped her fingers irritably."Manners?""Hah! Right, but no""Muscle? Mucus? Mystery?""No. No. No. Means like... seein' the other person's point of view."Verence tried to see the world from a Granny Weatherwax perspective and suspicion dawned. "Empathy?""Right. None at all.

Remember, please is the magic word, but its not the Magic Wyrd.