Different (correct) ways of spelling the same words.
In a discussion concerning tomatoes, I noticed that Maggy spelt them the same way as I do, however, 'tomatos' is also correct.
This got me thinking about any more words where different spellings are also correct. Does forums and forai count? Can anyone think of any more? |
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Beware of spellcheckers swerving you towards American English.
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Yea Ass and Arse ..
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ghoti = fish
'gh' from enough 'o' from women 'ti' from station |
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Judgment and Judgement
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Stationary and Stationery.
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Licensed and licenced, though I believe the first is the English spelling and the second American.
Re: Tomatoes. Maggy pointed out that tomatos is not a correct spelling. The original site that I used to check said that both were ok, but another says that there is only one spelling. As Maggy is a teacher I think it best to take her advice on this. |
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---------- Post added at 17:15 ---------- Previous post was at 17:13 ---------- Mrs. and Missus I suppose the former is a contraction of Mistress. Try referring to your wife as such.... |
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Licence is a noun, license is a verb. to drive you need a licence but the DVLA must license you.The L in DVLA is licensing. Though in America only license is used regardless of context.
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Spelled and spelt
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Gaol and jail. I hate that Jail seemed to be more uniformly used. I love the eccentricities of the English language.
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I noticed that many of the suggested different spellings of words are actually not the same word at all, and people are getting confused with what words and their meanings are. A lot of the time its the American English version. This one below is slightly different though as both are sort of correct Spelled and spelt - the American English past tense form is spelled. In other varieties of English, both spelled and spelt are common. So, if you're in the United States, you would probably write it like this: The past tense of the verb “spell” can be spelled in two ways. |
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Color and colour
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