Some national languages like Finnish, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian ( Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian ) and Bulgarian have a very regular spelling system with a nearly one-to-one correspondence between letters and phonemes.

French, with its silent letters and its heavy use of nasal vowels and elision, may seem to lack much correspondence between spelling and pronunciation, but its rules on pronunciation, though complex, are actually consistent and predictable with a fair degree of accuracy.

Sometimes, countries have the written language undergo a spelling reform to realign the writing with the contemporary spoken language.

A notorious murder scandal, the Overbury case, threw up two imperfect anagrams that were aided by typically loose spelling and were recorded by Simonds D ' Ewes: ' Francis Howard ' ( for Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, her maiden name spelled in a variant ) became Car findes a whore, with the letters E hardly counted, and the victim Thomas Overbury, as ' Thomas Overburie ', was written as O!

The term " aesthetics " was appropriated and coined with new meaning in the German form Æsthetik ( modern spelling Ästhetik ) by Alexander Baumgarten in 1735.

Therefore, differences with Dutch often lie in a more regular morphology, grammar, and spelling of Afrikaans.

" In the later Middle English spelling balle the word coincided graphically with the French balle " ball " and " bale " which has hence been erroneously assumed to be its source.

Babur corresponded with him in that language, correcting his spelling and commenting on his style.

News statements are shown as continuously scrolling upper-case text located at the bottom of the screen ; some past ambiguities noted have included spelling the plural of MPs as " MPS ", together with other occasional spelling and grammatical errors.

Behavior or behaviour ( see American and British spelling differences ) is the range of actions and mannerisms made by organisms, systems, or artificial entities in conjunction with their environment, which includes the other systems or organisms around as well as the physical environment.

Many Canadian editors, though, use the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, often along with the chapter on spelling in Editing Canadian English, and, where necessary ( depending on context ), one or more other references.

More recently, Canadian newspapers have adopted the British spelling variants such as-our endings, notably with The Globe and Mail changing its spelling policy in October 1990.

Written English as used in the Commonwealth generally favours British as opposed to American spelling, with some exceptions in Canada and Australia.

Chinese checkers ( alternate spelling Chinese chequers ) is a board game that can be played by two, three, four, or six people, playing individually or with partners.

Today English speakers generally attempt something close to the modern Spanish pronunciation when saying Quixote ( Quijote ), as, although the traditional English spelling pronunciation pronouncing the name with the value of the letter x in modern English is still sometimes used, resulting in or.

Adult dyslexics can read with good comprehension, but they tend to read more slowly than non-dyslexics and perform more poorly at spelling and nonsense word reading, a measure of phonological awareness.

Although the disorder varies from person to person, common characteristics among people with dyslexia are difficulty with spelling, phonological processing ( the manipulation of sounds ), and / or rapid visual-verbal responding.

At later ages symptoms can include a difficulty identifying or generating rhyming words, or counting syllables in words ( phonological awareness ), a difficulty segmenting words into individual sounds, or blending sounds to make words, a difficulty with word retrieval or naming problems, commonly very poor spelling which has been called dysorthographia ( orthographic coding ), and tendencies to omit or add letters or words when writing and reading are considered classic signs.

English has a comparatively deep orthography within the Latin alphabet writing system, with a complex orthographic structure that employs spelling patterns at several levels: principally, letter-sound correspondences, syllables, and morphemes.

For dyslexia intervention with alphabet writing systems the fundamental aim is to increase a child's awareness of correspondences between graphemes and phonemes, and to relate these to reading and spelling.

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

A vapor ( American spelling ) or vapour ( see spelling differences ) is a substance in the gas phase at a temperature lower than its critical point.

For these reasons, divergence from standard spelling is often perceived as an indicator of low intelligence, illiteracy, or lower class standing.

Capitalization ( or capitalisation — see spelling differences ) is writing a word with its first letter as a capital letter ( upper-case letter ) and the remaining letters in lower case.

Another inscription is found along the lower edge of the reverse spelling " Great Law of Peace " ( an English translation of Gayanashagowa, the Iroquois Confederacy constitution ).

( That is, the s between vowels did not change to r .) Using the Latin alphabet as it existed in the day of Julius Caesar ( 100 BC – 44 BC ) ( i. e., without lower case letters, " J ", or " U "), Caesar's name is properly rendered ( the spelling is also attested and is interchangeable with the more common ; however the letter was used with its antique pronunciation of, as it was an adaptation of Greek gamma ).

Out back, a small " BUICK " nameplate was located above the right side taillight replacing the larger block letters spelling " B U I C K " across the lower trunklid between the taillights in 1971.

Rust prepared a reform of German orthography, and his fairly extensive version corresponded to the ideas of the spelling reformers of the 1970s ( lower case common nouns, elimination of lengthening-symbols ).

In 2007, the logo was updated and the spelling was changed to " Shopko " with a lower case " k " at the suggestion of Columbus, Ohio based retail design firm, Chute Gerdeman Retail.

Specific pressing runs of records are sometimes printed on different colored vinyl, have new or different songs, contain spelling or mixing errors, or may be in lower quantity than other pressings.

During the 17th century ( and until well into the 19th century ) consistent spelling of names was not enforced, due to lower literacy levels and the absence of the standardization required by government bureaucracies.

* In other cases, Canadians and Americans differ from British spelling, such as in the case of nouns like curb and tire, which in British English are spelled kerb and tyre.

It is a revival of the Old Norse name, but whereas this language is usually rendered in its Latin spelling, curiously, in this case a transliteration of the spelling on a rune stone has been preferred.

Sometimes there may be variation in a language's orthography, as between American and British spelling in the case of English.

In the case of a frog croaking, the spelling may vary because different frog species around the world make different sounds: Ancient Greek brekekekex koax koax ( only in Aristophanes ' comic play The Frogs ) for probably marsh frogs ; English ribbit for species of frog found in North America ; English verb " croak " for the common frog.

The decision must be authorized by the Director of Civil Status, and requires a valid reason for changing the name, including long-term use of the new name ( in the Montreuil case cited below, the Quebec appeals court has considered five years ' use to be a sufficient reason ), difficulty of use due to spelling or pronunciation, or bearing a name that another person has made infamous.

In Great Britain the name " Derby " is pronounced, while in the United States it is rendered as ( a case of spelling pronunciation ).

Later on, that same team are killed off, again due to bad spelling ( in this case, misinterpreting a SHOVEL spell that they were given prior as SPADE ).

While it may be extremely common in speech, sandhi ( especially for the external ) is typically ignored in spelling, as is the case in English, with the exception of the distinction between " a " and " an " ( sandhi is, however, reflected in the writing system of both Sanskrit and many other Indian languages, as also in Italian in the case of compound words with lexicalized raddoppiamento fonosintattico ).

Some insist upon keeping as literal subtitles as possible, thus the editor would merely fix spelling and grammar mistakes, while other groups are more liberal with their editing, in which case the editor often rewrites / rewords lines in their entirety.

The Elvish form Nírnaeth Arnoediad ( pronounced ; in this case the digraph oe denotes a rounded variant of the sound, more or less like German ' ö ') comes from Sindarin, one of the languages invented by Tolkien, and translates to Tears Uncountable: nîn means ' tear ( s )', in compound nírnaeth ' tears of woe '; prefix ar-bears the sense of ' beyond ' and the root nod-means ' count ', with o umlauted to œ by the following i. J. R. R. Tolkien often omitted the accent over the first vowel ( due to haste or neglect ), and this spelling was introduced into the published Silmarillion by Christopher Tolkien ; in editorial text within later writings, as The War of the Jewels, he used the accented form.

While the holiday is commonly printed as Veteran's Day or Veterans ' Day in calendars and advertisements ( spellings that are grammatically acceptable ), the United States government has declared that the attributive ( no apostrophe ) rather than the possessive case is the official spelling.

* Qalam ( 1985 ): A system that focuses upon preserving the spelling, rather than the pronunciation, and uses mixed case

The Hare Krishna mantra is composed of Sanskrit names in the vocative case: Hare, Krishna, and Rama ( in Anglicized spelling, the transliteration of the three vocatives is, and, pronounced ).

Despite the identical spelling, the " turtle " of the name, derived from Latin turtur, has no connection with the reptile ; " turtle " in that case came originally from Late Latin tortuca.

The International Code of Botanical Nomenclature has gradually changed to incorporate stricter rules about orthographic variants, and as of the 2006 edition requires ( article 60, particularly 60. 5 ) that Linnaeus ' spelling should be followed in this case.

Choosing the " more common " spelling would thus be wrong in this case.

In the first case, the exact one-to-one correspondence may be lost ( for example, some phoneme may be represented by a digraph instead of a single letter ), but the " regularity " is retained, in that there is still an algorithm ( though a more complex one ) for predicting the spelling from the pronunciation and vice versa.

The pronunciation of almost every word can be derived from its spelling, once the spelling rules are known, but the opposite is not generally the case.

Entries with each of the four tones filled a separate volume ( or two volumes, in the case of the many words of the " level " tone ), divided into 193 final rimes ( each named by its first character, called the yùnmù 韻目 ; " rime eye "), and subdivided into homophone groups ( each beginning with a fanqie spelling ).

A spelling pronunciation often reflects an even older pronunciation than the traditional one, especially in the case of compound words ( for example " waistcoat ", " cupboard ", and " forehead ") and words with silent letters ( for example " often ").