The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.
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Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class.
Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.
A lot of people use the dictionary to find out how to spell words.
It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.
But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.
I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.
We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them.
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.
Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.
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