2006, Wm. Shakespeare, Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor, eds.,Hamlet, London: Arden Shakespeare:
[p 88] A persuasive theory about the authority of the quarto or Folio texts might shed light on how Shakespeare actually spelt these names in a particular manuscript, but, since Shakespeare seemed capable ofspelling his own name differently on different occasions, how reliable a guide would such evidence be?
For the practical use ofspelling comes in writing.
1920, Henry Gallup Paine,Handbook of Simplified Spelling, New York: Simplified Spelling Board, page 1:
Spelling was invented by man and, like other human inventions, is capable of development and improvement by man in the direction of simplicity, economy, and efficiency.
I knew that Kriciak, the inspector who was supervising me for the Marshals Service, was going to go nuts when I told him that I wanted to allow Landon to participate in soccer andspelling.
2006, William Shakespeare, edited by Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor,Hamlet, London: Arden Shakespeare, page88:
Because Elizabethanspelling was fluid, editors feel free to ‘modernize’ (correct) thespelling in the quartos and the Folio. But how is one to spell Rosencratz or Guildenstern, where thespelling varies, not only from text to text, but even within texts?
1860,Oscar Lawrence Jackson,The Colonel's Diary: Journals Kept Before and During the Civil War [1922], Sharon, Penn., p 23:
The boys were anxious for aspelling in the evening but I said no.
1889,James Whitcomb Riley, “A’ Old Played-Out Song”, inPipes O' Pan at Zekesbury, Indianapolis, Ind.: Bowen-Merrill, page45:
How her face ust to look, in the twilight, / As I tuck her tospellin’; and she / Kep’ a-hummin’ that song ’tel I ast her, / Pine-blank, ef she ever missed me!
2004, Carl Lindahl, editor,American Folktales: From the Collections of the Library of Congress, volume 1, Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, page416:
So we'd sit with these girls during school hours, and we told them, if they'd slip off, that we'd get away, and we'd go to [the school] to aspelling.
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