Spelling, the Glossary
Spelling is a set of conventions for written language regarding how graphemes should correspond to the sounds of spoken language.[1]
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71 relations: Alphabetic principle, American and British English spelling differences, Arab, Alabama, Australia, BBC, Commonly misspelled English words, Dialect, Domain name, Dunkin' Donuts, Dyslexia, Education, English orthography, English terms with diacritical marks, English-language spelling reform, Eye dialect, French orthography, German orthography, German orthography reform of 1996, Google, Googol, Grampian Mountains, Grapheme, Great Vowel Shift, Greek orthography, Hangul orthography, Homophone, HTTP referer, Icelandic language, Italian orthography, Krispy Kreme, Latin phonology and orthography, Linguistic prescription, List of language regulators, Literacy, Minority language, Noah Webster, Official language, Official script, Orthography, Ovaltine, Phonemic orthography, Portuguese language, Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990, Pronunciation respelling, Pronunciation respelling for English, Quartzite, Quartzsite, Arizona, Regional language, Register (sociolinguistics), Russian orthography, ... Expand index (21 more) »
Alphabetic principle
According to the alphabetic principle, letters and combinations of letters are the symbols used to represent the speech sounds of a language based on systematic and predictable relationships between written letters, symbols, and spoken words. Spelling and alphabetic principle are orthography.
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American and British English spelling differences
Despite the various English dialects spoken from country to country and within different regions of the same country, there are only slight regional variations in English orthography, the two most notable variations being British and American spelling.
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Arab, Alabama
Arab is a city in Marshall County in the northern part of the U.S. state of Alabama, located from Guntersville Lake and Guntersville Dam, and is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
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Commonly misspelled English words
Commonly misspelled English words (UK: misspelt words) are words that are often unintentionally misspelled in general writing. Spelling and Commonly misspelled English words are orthography.
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Dialect
Dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word, 'discourse', from, 'through' and, 'I speak') refers to two distinctly different types of linguistic relationships.
Domain name
In the Internet, a domain name is a string that identifies a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control.
Dunkin' Donuts
Dunkin' Donuts, trading as Dunkin' since 2019, is an American multinational coffee and donut company, as well as a quick service restaurant.
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Dyslexia
Dyslexia, previously known as word blindness, is a learning disability ('learning difficulty' in the UK) that affects either reading or writing.
Education
Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits and manifests in various forms.
English orthography
English orthography is the writing system used to represent spoken English, allowing readers to connect the graphemes to sound and to meaning.
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English terms with diacritical marks
English rarely uses diacritics, which are symbols indicating the modification of a letter's sound when spoken.
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English-language spelling reform
For centuries, there have been movements to reform the spelling of the English language.
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Eye dialect
Eye dialect is a writer's use of deliberately nonstandard spelling either because they do not consider the standard spelling a good reflection of the pronunciation or because they are intending to portray informal or low-status language usage. Spelling and Eye dialect are orthography.
French orthography
French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.
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German orthography
German orthography is the orthography used in writing the German language, which is largely phonemic.
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German orthography reform of 1996
The German orthography reform of 1996 (Reform der deutschen Rechtschreibung von 1996) was a change to German spelling and punctuation that was intended to simplify German orthography and thus to make it easier to learn, without substantially changing the rules familiar to users of the language.
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Google LLC is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI).
Googol
A googol is the large number 10100 or ten to the power of one hundred.
Grampian Mountains
The Grampian Mountains (Am Monadh) is one of the three major mountain ranges in Scotland, that together occupy about half of Scotland.
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Grapheme
In linguistics, a grapheme is the smallest functional unit of a writing system.
Great Vowel Shift
The Great Vowel Shift was a series of changes in the pronunciation of the English language that took place primarily between 1400 and 1700, beginning in southern England and today having influenced effectively all dialects of English.
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Greek orthography
The orthography of the Greek language ultimately has its roots in the adoption of the Greek alphabet in the 9th century BC.
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Hangul orthography
Hangeul matchumbeop (한글맞춤법) refers to the overall rules of writing the Korean language with Hangul.
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Homophone
A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same (to a varying extent) as another word but differs in meaning.
HTTP referer
In HTTP, "" (a misspelling of "Referrer") is an optional HTTP header field that identifies the address of the web page (i.e., the URI or IRI), from which the resource has been requested.
Icelandic language
Icelandic (íslenska) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken by about 314,000 people, the vast majority of whom live in Iceland, where it is the national language.
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Italian orthography
Italian orthography (the conventions used in writing Italian) uses the Latin alphabet to write the Italian language.
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Krispy Kreme
Krispy Kreme, Inc. (previously Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc.) is an American multinational doughnut company and coffeehouse chain.
Latin phonology and orthography
Latin phonology is the system of sounds used in various kinds of Latin.
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Linguistic prescription
Linguistic prescription, also called prescriptivism or prescriptive grammar, is the establishment of rules defining preferred usage of language.
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List of language regulators
This is a list of bodies that consider themselves to be authorities on standard languages, often called language academies.
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Literacy
Literacy is the ability to read and write.
Minority language
A minority language is a language spoken by a minority of the population of a territory.
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Noah Webster
Noah Webster Jr. (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843) was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and author.
Official language
An official language is a language having certain rights to be used in defined situations.
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Official script
An official script is a writing system that is specifically designated to be official in the constitutions or other applicable laws of countries, states, and other jurisdictions.
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Orthography
An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word boundaries, emphasis, and punctuation.
Ovaltine
Ovaltine (also known by its original name Ovomaltine) is a brand of milk flavoring product made with malt extract (blue packaging in the United States), sugar (except in Switzerland), and whey.
Phonemic orthography
A phonemic orthography is an orthography (system for writing a language) in which the graphemes (written symbols) correspond consistently to the language's phonemes (the smallest units of speech that can differentiate words). Spelling and phonemic orthography are orthography.
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Portuguese language
Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990
The Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 (Acordo Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa de 1990) is an international treaty whose purpose is to create a unified orthography for the Portuguese language, to be used by all the countries that have Portuguese as their official language.
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Pronunciation respelling
A pronunciation respelling is a regular phonetic respelling of a word that has a standard spelling but whose pronunciation according to that spelling may be ambiguous, which is used to indicate the pronunciation of that word.
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Pronunciation respelling for English
A pronunciation respelling for English is a notation used to convey the pronunciation of words in the English language, which do not have a phonemic orthography (i.e. the spelling does not reliably indicate pronunciation).
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Quartzite
Quartzite is a hard, non-foliated metamorphic rock which was originally pure quartz sandstone.
Quartzsite, Arizona
Quartzsite is a town in La Paz County, Arizona, United States.
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Regional language
* A regional language is a language spoken in a region of a sovereign state, whether it be a small area, a federated state or province or some wider area.
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Register (sociolinguistics)
In sociolinguistics, a register is a variety of language used for a particular purpose or particular communicative situation.
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Russian orthography
Russian orthography is an orthographic tradition formally considered to encompass spelling (p) and punctuation (p).
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Scripps National Spelling Bee
The Scripps National Spelling Bee, formerly the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee and often referred to as the National Spelling Bee or simply “the Spelling Bee” in the United States, is an annual spelling bee held in the United States.
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Sequim, Washington
Sequim is a city in Clallam County, Washington, United States.
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A social class or social stratum is a grouping of people into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the working class, middle class, and upper class.
Spanish orthography
Spanish orthography is the orthography used in the Spanish language.
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Speech
Speech is the use of the human voice as a medium for language.
Spell checker
In software, a spell checker (or spelling checker or spell check) is a software feature that checks for misspellings in a text.
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Spelling bee
A spelling bee is a competition in which contestants are asked to spell a broad selection of words, usually with a varying degree of difficulty.
Spelling pronunciation
A spelling pronunciation is the pronunciation of a word according to its spelling when this differs from a longstanding standard or traditional pronunciation.
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Spelling reform
A spelling reform is a deliberate, often authoritatively sanctioned or mandated change to spelling rules.
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Spelling test
A spelling test is an assessment of a person's (usually a student's) ability to spell words correctly.
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Spoken language
A spoken language is a language produced by articulate sounds or (depending on one's definition) manual gestures, as opposed to a written language.
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Standard language
A standard language (or standard variety, standard dialect, standardized dialect or simply standard) is a language variety that has undergone substantial codification of its grammar, lexicon, writing system, or other features and stands out among other varieties in a community as the one with the highest status or prestige.
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Teh
Teh is an Internet slang neologism most frequently used as an English article, based on a common typographical error of "the". Teh has subsequently developed grammatical usages distinct from the.
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The Money Programme
The Money Programme was a finance and business affairs television programme on BBC Two which ran between April 1966 and November 2010.
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Trademark
A trademark (also written trade mark or trade-mark) is a type of intellectual property consisting of a recognizable sign, design, or expression that identifies a product or service from a particular source and distinguishes it from others.
Transcription (linguistics)
Transcription in the linguistic sense is the systematic representation of spoken language in written form.
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Typographical error
A typographical error (often shortened to typo), also called a misprint, is a mistake (such as a spelling or transposition error) made in the typing of printed or electronic material.
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Typosquatting
Typosquatting, also called URL hijacking, a sting site, a cousin domain, or a fake URL, is a form of cybersquatting, and possibly brandjacking which relies on mistakes such as typos made by Internet users when inputting a website address into a web browser.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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Written language
A written language is the representation of a language by means of writing.
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Zenith
The zenith is an imaginary point directly "above" a particular location, on the celestial sphere.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling
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