Quotes About Spelling

O'Brien asked everything, from soft questions such as the correct spelling of his name (Al didn't know if i or e was the correct ending and said he preferred "Capone") to hard ones such as if he really gave a banquet for Albert Anselmi and John Scalise before he beat them to death with a baseball bat.

The only Aniimal with 2 ii's!

he'd said they were studying the "taywah" or "terror" of the region, even when he'd spelled it out as t-e-r-r-o-i-r.

Thank you, Caillou, for having a nonphonetic title so my son cannot look you up on Netflix.

I was always admonished by my English teachers in their heavily accented, Viennese-inflected English not to speak this abomination of an "American dialect" or "American slang" and never to use "American spelling" with its simplifications that testified prima facie to the uncultured and simpleton nature of Americans.

It's a darn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.

There was also one Anthony, whose mama could spell, and one Antnee, whose mama couldn't. It

Nick looked back for a moment at the arched sign, but it looked different when it was spelled right-ORPHANAGE. It wasn't EGANAHPRO any more.

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

Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta...Delta is for Charlie and Charlie is for Cain

But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'.

Oh, it makes SUCH a difference. It LOOKS so much nicer. When you hear a name pronounced can't you always see it in your mind, just as if it was printed out? I can; and A-n-n looks dreadful, but A-n-n-e looks so much more distinguished. If you'll only call me Anne spelled with an E I shall try to reconcile myself to not being called Cordelia.

This year the teacher was a slim, pale young man. His name was Mr. Corse. He was gentle and patient, and never whipped little boys because they forgot how to spell a word. Almanzo

wats yr typ? people who can spell

want to go out with me? ??? chill, im not gay ???? r u shur you're not my type G wats yr typ? people who can spell

Assuming that the manner in which something is said is often as relevant as its content, I have edited as little as possible, changing sentence structure only when clarity would be otherwise sacrificed, and revising unorthodox spelling on the premise that linotype operators have a difficult enough life as it is.

Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.

The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits.

The story's what matters; spelling's overrated.

Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway riding around New York and I would spell whatever I would see. When I watched a movie I would spell words as they came up.

Louie brought his new girlfriend over, and the nicest thing I can say about her is all her tattoos are spelled correctly.

Around this time, Hamilton chatted with Burr about an appointment. Aware of bad blood between him and Washington, Hamilton asked Burr whether he could serve faithfully under the general. Burr unhesitatingly replied that "he despised Washington as a man of no talents and one who could not spell a sentence of common English.

I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn't spell it.