58 Quotes About Spelling

  • Author Beverly Cleary
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    Beezus has told her the way to remember how to spell the kind of principal who was the principal of a school was to remember the word ended in p-a-l, and not -p-l-e, was because the principal was her pal.

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  • Author Eley Williams
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    Onomatopoeia is onomatopoeia for mashing your hands unthinkingly but hopefully onto a keyboard.

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  • Author Humayun Azad
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    বাঙলা, এবং যে-কোনো, ভাষার শুদ্ধ বানান লেখার সহজতম উপায় শুদ্ধ বানানটি শিখে নেয়া।

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  • Author Mary Norris
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    Spelling is the clothing of words, their outward visible sign, and even those who favour sweatpants in everyday life like to make a bella figura, as the Italians say – a good impression – in their prose.

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  • Author Lord Chesterfield
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    I give my vote for Mr. Johnson to fill that great and arduous post. And I hereby declare that I make a total surrender of all my rights and privileges in the English language, as a freeborn British subject, to the said Mr. Johnson, during the term of his dictatorship. Nay more; I will not only obey him, like an old Roman, as my dictator, but, like a modern Roman, I will implicitly believe in him as my pope, and hold him to be infallible while in the chair; but no longer.

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  • Author Randolph Hock
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    If there are spelling and grammatical errors, assume that the same level of attention to detail probably went into the gathering and reporting of the "facts" given on the site.

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