He also busied himself with support for revised spelling for English through the Simplified Spelling Society.

Spelling is but a small part of the differences between dialects of English, and may not even reflect dialect differences at all ( except in phonetically spelled dialogue ).

Spelling in English varies, as the word is a transliteration from Hebrew.

The American Spelling Book: Containing the Rudiments of the English Language for the Use of Schools in the United States by Noah Webster 1836 edition online, the famous Blue-Backed Speller

The 1400XL / 1450XL computers used a Finite State Machine to enable World English Spelling text-to-speech synthesis.

Olde English Spelling Bee,

Spelling is easier in languages with more or less consistent spelling systems such as Finnish, Serbian, Italian and Spanish, than in languages where the pronunciation has moved on since the spelling was fixed, or which use anachronistic or inconsistent spellings, like Irish, English or French.

* Mavor, William, English Spelling Book, London, Routledge, 1885.

Spelling often evolves for simple reasons of alphabetic thrift, as when British English " catalogue " becomes American English " catalog ".

Spelling bees are rare to nonexistent in countries whose national language follows more phonemic spelling rules, as compared to the largely historical spelling of the English and French languages.

In Taiwan, the National Spelling Bee Championship is a contest held by Bugstation. tv for young English learners.

Another organisation that promotes the love of the English language is Horizons Unlimited, which in 2011 organized an India Spelling Bee contest for children in the southern state of Kerala in India.

Spelling variations of the names were found in the archives researched, particularly when families attempted to translate the name from the Gaelic to the English.

This is the English Spelling of the American English Quantization.

Both men were active advocates of English spelling reform, and members of the Spelling reform Association, precursor to the Simplified Spelling Society.

* Spelling may reflect false etymology ( as in the English words hiccough, island, so spelt because of an imagined connection with the words cough and isle ), or distant etymology ( as in the English word debt, where the b was added under the influence of Latin ).

* Spelling: probably the biggest difficulty for non-native speakers since English spelling does not follow the alphabetic principle consistently.

* Pearson Test of English Academic ( PTE Academic ), a Pearson product, measure Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening as well as Grammar, Oral Fluency, Pronunciation, Spelling, Vocabular and Written Discourse.

The book followed Webster's 1783 work Spelling Book and aimed to differentiate American English from British English.

Spelling evolved slowly in the 18th century and was largely based on etymology.

Spelling without hyphen sees scattered use in the later 20th century, following Harvey Cox's 1966 Secular City: " Thus the hidden God or deus absconditus of biblical theology may be mistaken for the no-god-at-all of nontheism.

Spelling and punctuation before the 16th century was highly erratic, but the introduction of printing in 1470 provoked the need for uniformity.

Many spelling changes proposed in the United States by Webster himself, and in the early 20th century by the Simplified Spelling Board, never caught on.

* Spelling for the 21st century: Sanford S. Silverman

The Stanford Achievement Test, Form J, was administered by classroom teachers, consisting of a battery of six sub-tests: Paragraph Meaning, Word Meaning, Spelling, Language, Arithmetic Computation, and Arithmetic Reasoning.

* Paramount has TV and digital rights to some films in the Nelson Entertainment catalog, also as a result of the Viacom merger, including the Bill & Ted films – all other rights, including Nelson's later films and the copyright to Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, reside with MGM ( several other Nelson films are owned by Paramount for TV and digital distribution through the Spelling merger, as Worldvision at one point had rights to some Nelson films as well );

The pregame show, narrated by actress Tori Spelling, depicted the adventure of a Caribbean cruise from its festive departure to its journey to exotic destinations.

After her tenure on Saved by the Bell ended in 1994, producer Aaron Spelling then cast Thiessen in the hit teen-drama Beverly Hills, 90210 playing the bad girl vixen Valerie Malone ( 1994 – 98 ).

Most of UPN's programming through the years was produced by Paramount Television or a sister company ( Viacom Productions, Big Ticket Entertainment, Spelling Television, or CBS Productions ).

Two dramas produced by Spelling Television, 7th Heaven and Charmed also helped bring The WB into the spotlight, with " Charmed " lasting eight seasons and being the longest running drama with female leads and " 7th Heaven " surviving eleven seasons and being the longest running family drama and longest running show for The WB.

* The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a one-act musical by William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin.

In the later years of her career, she made guest appearances in three different series by Aaron Spelling ; The Love Boat ( 1979 ), Glitter ( 1984 ), and Hotel ( 1987 ), which would be her final screen appearance as an actress.

Worldvision was purchased by Taft in 1979 and sold to Aaron Spelling in 1988.

In 1868, Ambroise Firmin-Didot suggested in his book Observations sur l ' orthographe, ou ortografie, française ( Observations on French Spelling ) that French phonetics could be better regularized by adding a cedilla beneath the letter " t " in some words.

Aaron Spelling wrote an early draft of the screenplay, but the final version was mostly written by Jon Cleary.

During the series, Screech briefly has a girlfriend named Violet ( played by Tori Spelling ); it is not made clear why the two broke up.

* Kelly Taylor ( played by Jennie Garth ) and Donna Martin ( played by Tori Spelling ) on Beverly Hills, 90210, and also Naomi Clark ( played by AnnaLynne McCord ) on its newer version, 90210.

* Shea Farrell, Actor and Producer noted for playing Mark Danning in the television show Hotel created by Aaron Spelling

* Kindred: The Embraced, a television series based on Vampire, was produced by Aaron Spelling.

In 1986, Dark Mansions, a made-for-TV movie intended to be a pilot for a weekly supernatural serial, was produced by Aaron Spelling.

* May 14 – The first quiz show, Spelling Bee, is televised by the BBC.

Charlie's Angels was created by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts and produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg.

Throughout her career, Locklear has appeared in eight television productions made by Aaron Spelling, these being Dynasty, T. J. Hooker, Matt Houston, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, Hotel, Melrose Place, and the made-for-TV movie Rich Men, Single Women.

* June 9-The Philadelphia Spelling Book by John Barry becomes the first book to be copyrighted in the United States.

The series, created by Richard & Esther Shapiro and produced by Aaron Spelling, revolved around the Carringtons, a wealthy oil family living in Denver, Colorado.