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Old 14-10-2018, 16:30   #1
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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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Old 14-10-2018, 17:39   #2
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Re: Different (correct) ways of spelling the same words.

Beware of spellcheckers swerving you towards American English.
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Old 14-10-2018, 20:51   #3
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Yea Ass and Arse ..
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Old 14-10-2018, 21:43   #4
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Re: Different (correct) ways of spelling the same words.

ghoti = fish

'gh' from enough
'o' from women
'ti' from station
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Old 14-10-2018, 22:48   #5
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Re: Different (correct) ways of spelling the same words.

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Beware of spellcheckers swerving you towards American English.
As far I can tell, forai isnt word in any English.
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Old 15-10-2018, 01:37   #6
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Re: Different (correct) ways of spelling the same words.

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As far I can tell, forai isnt word in any English.
* Fora.
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Old 15-10-2018, 09:34   #7
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Stationary and Stationery.
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Old 15-10-2018, 18:07   #9
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Re: Different (correct) ways of spelling the same words.

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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Old 15-10-2018, 18:15   #10
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Re: Different (correct) ways of spelling the same words.

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Stationary and Stationery.
One is "to be still" the other is "materials for writing".

---------- 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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Re: Different (correct) ways of spelling the same words.

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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Old 16-10-2018, 12:25   #12
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Spelled and spelt
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Old 16-10-2018, 13:46   #13
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Re: Different (correct) ways of spelling the same words.

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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Re: Different (correct) ways of spelling the same words.

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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.
That is more of an olde English spelling and is not really used any longer.

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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