Quotes About Spelling

How to Spell Read

But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

God, don't they teach you how to spell these days? No, I answer. They teach us to use spell-check.

Before. b-e-f-o-r-e, not B4. We speak English. Not bingo.

Someday I'll design a typeface without a K in it, and then let's see the bastards misspell my name.

It's pronounced 'Romaine', like the lettuce.

After my husband spell-checks one of my manuscripts, my editor says, 'It's been Normanized.'

Imagine searching for a caterer and their website simply said, "We will be your favorite, caterer, we promise," but didn't spell out a simple plan.

Well, I don't know who wrote this, said Francis at last, his tone offhand and perfectly casual, but whoever they were, they certainly couldn't spell.

said, "You spelled lemonade wrong. It's an o, not an i." But she thought, Oh, good! A lemonade stand. My favorite thing to do! The boys didn't say anything. Jessie saw Evan's mouth tighten up. "You want me to make the lemonade?" she asked.

For one thing, it is hard for me to let a sentence stand if I see something wrong with it. Even when I'm writing a grocery list it is hard for me not to correct a misspelling.

We may curse our bad luck that it's sounds like its; who's sounds like whose; they're sounds like their (and their); there's sounds like theirs; and you're sounds like your. But if we are grown-ups who have been through full-time education, we have no excuse for muddling them up.

I can read. A little. I kind of protested it in School(TM). On the grounds that the silent 'E' is stupid.

Introducing 'Lite' – The new way to spell 'Light', but with 20 per cent fewer letters. JERRY SEINFELD

When asked to spell Mississippi the boy asked "The river or the state?"

Spelling is a pain in the neck. I do my best with it, but I figger if a guy has tremendous gifts as a writer, his audience will forgive a few slip-ups in the spelling department.

She would hang a sign in the restaurant window--Owt to luntsch. Bee bak in a whale. For she could not spell either.

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

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

How do Polish people spell farm? E-I-E-I-O

That awkward moment when you spell a word so wrong that even auto-correct is like 'I got nothing, man.'

Unless Spelling Bee bitches exist, this makes her the geekiest kind of groupie on e can possibly be.

He wanted to remove silent letters and reform the whole business. He sent his scheme to his friend May Stevenson in a letter beginning: 'Diir Frind' but May replied that she could 'si meni inkanviiniensis az vel az difikylties'. That stopped it.

There were over five hundred ways of spelling the word 'through' and over sixty of the pronoun 'she', which is quite hard to imagine.