Quotes About Spelling

Ankh-Morpork people considered that spelling was a sort of optional extra. They believed in it the same way they believed in punctuation; it didn't matter where you put it, so long as it was there.

I don't have that kind of brain where I can spell-check.

Of course words are magic. That's why they call it spelling.

I' before 'E' except after 'C', and when sounded like 'ay' as in neighbor and weigh, and on weekends and holidays, and all throughout May, and you'll always be wrong no matter what you say!

Visit any public school toilet and look at the graffiti. You'll see that when children are interested, they can learn to spell quite complicated words.

My name is Anne; spelled with an e at the end." said Anne to Mrs. Thomas.

I've always been a creative speller and never achieved good grades in school. I graduated from high school but didn't have the opportunity to attend college, so I did what young women my age did at the time - I married.

YouTube is covered in comments that would be better expressed - and better spelled - via a simple thumbs-up or down.

I used to spell everything phonetically, or I would have little tricks for words I could not figure out.

But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.

Why isn't the word "phonetically" spelled with an "f"?

If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know?

Remember, the only difference between 'marital' and 'martial' is where you put the 'i

Remember, the only difference between 'marital' and 'martial' is where you put the 'i.

never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased

Don't think I'm not holding you responsible for this, either, you witch!" "I think you lefth the B off that word," Jim said.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the first word you thought of.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities.

Four is the only numeral spelled with the same amount of letters as its numerical value.

NO." CURRAN STRODE TO THE CAR, HEADING DOWN the street away from the temple. "No what?" I knew what, but I wanted him to spell it out. That way I could shut him down better.

With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.

One of the things I really like about West African guitar playing is the way it makes harmony linear. They're really spelling things out and turning chords into melodies instead of just letting them be these hanging blocks of color.

Even my trolls have started taking the trouble to spell their Tweets correctly, which is thoughtful.