Quotes About Spelling

Why is it suddenly uncool to spell? That's all I want to know.

I before e, Except after c, Or when sounded as a, As in neighbor or weigh.

The most damaging mistakes a writer can make are probably misspelling or misusing words

You probably remember this spelling rule from your elementary school: I before e, Except after c, Or when sounded as a, As in neighbor or weigh. That's certainly a helpful rule—most of the time. It works for words such as beige, ceiling, conceive, feign, field, inveigh, obeisance, priest, receive, shield, sleigh, and weight.

A chrysanthemum by any other name would be easier to spell.

Tinker wrote neatly, though his spelling was not good, Ruth's recipes would never fail for confusion between 'add sugar' and 'seethe', but Jane's writing looked like an intoxicated inky spider had staggered across the page on the way to the bar for another drink. Which it really didn't need.

President Obama smoked so much pot in college he never learned to spell. Which is why he's confusing the word "ruining" the country with "running" the country.

Webster's dislike of words that weren't pronounced the way they looked led him to decree that words such as centre and theatre should be spelled center and theater; he also dropped the silent u from words such as colour, favour and honour. In fact, Webster was single-handedly responsible for most of the differences between British and American spelling that survive to this day.

My friend Doris Bry says now that I've ruined her spelling because I misspell with such confidence.

I never did learn to spell. My friend Doris Bry says now that I've ruined her spelling because I misspell with such confidence.

Yass, yass. He said he wants to see the 'babby' spelt with two b's when he can get to Frisco.

I write like a two-year-old, and I can't spell.

The type of Alzheimer's Dad has is rare - posterior cortical atrophy or PCA - and it affects his spatial awareness and the way he judges distance. His first symptoms were erratic typing and spelling, but to talk to him, you'd never know there was a problem.

I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.

In the middle of the night When Im in this dream Its like a million little stars Spelling out your name

One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.

No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.

I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

I like signing books for a living; I do. But you have no idea the panic that sets in. I am not a very good speller. Put me in a stresser situation, and I lose all capacity to recall how to spell the most simple names.

How do you spell the name of the Irish prime minister? It sounds like 'teeshuck', but we spell it 'taoiseach.' We respect foreign spellings these days - a sign of our more egalitarian times, perhaps.

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

A lot of people use the dictionary to find out how to spell words.

I still can't spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.

I'm not sure we could spell 'shale' in 2008.