"Spelling is the art of writing words with their proper letters. In the English language this art is peculiarly diffic…"

"Languages never stand still. Modern spelling crystallises lost pronunciations: the visual never quite catches up with…"

"If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those year…"

"My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places."

"With the aid of my all-important spelling correction program, I can be confident of my presentation. Do I fear that I…"

"As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it i…"

"They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce."

"I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the son…"

"In a certain sense lexicography may be considered a superior discipline to lexicology, for results are more important…"

"Editing a dictionary isn’t like editing any other book or magazine," the professor pointed out. "It’s a peculiar worl…"