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The current spelling, amaranth, seems to have come from folk etymology that assumed the final syllable derived from the Greek word anthos (" flower "), common in botanical names.
On occasion, the names of characters themselves actually seem to have been altered: the spelling of the name of Homer ’ s character Polydamas, Pouludamas, appears to be an alternative rendering of the metrically unviable Poludamas (“ subduer of many ”).
Other names considered were " GeM ", " Austral ", " Melba ", " Woomerah ", " Boomerang ", " Emu " and " Canbra ", a phonetic spelling of Canberra.
Because many Molokans were not educated in English and could not transliterate the spelling of their names, when individual families members were called to separate immigration windows and said their last name, the spelling used was based on of the immigration agent's ability to sound out the name.
From the beginning of times, W had in Swedish been considered as a mere decoration of V. In Swedish typography, blackletter ( fraktur ) used W where antiqua used V. With orthographic standardization and spelling reform, W was abandoned except for some family names and a few loan words such as whisky, whist, wienerbröd and wobbler ( also spelled visky and vobbler ).
Four main strategies have been used by translators ; the first leaves all characters ' names unchanged and in their original spelling, thus the name is respected and readers reminded of the original cultural setting, but the liveliness of the pun is lost.
It is however recognised and maintained in the spelling of some old names, reflecting an earlier German spelling standard, and in some modern loan words.
It fundamentally improves on the Soundex algorithm by using information about variations and inconsistencies in English spelling and pronunciation to produce a more accurate encoding, which does a better job of matching words and names which sound similar.
However, while the names Shiraz and Hermitage gradually seem to have replaced Scyras in Australia from the mid-19th century, the spelling Shiraz has also been documented in British sources back to at least the 1830s.
Older reference works tend to favour the spelling " Caractacus ", but modern scholars agree, based on historical linguistics and source criticism, that the original Brythonic form was * Caratācos, pronounced, which gives the attested names Caradog in Welsh, Karadeg in Breton and Carthach in Irish.
All these division names were spelled in many different ways by Spanish and English writers, and spelling differences continue today.
The spelling of many family names has changed over time.
Ordinal names are not covered by the International Code of Nomenclature and thus the name and spelling comes down to a matter of personal preference.
The Greek spelling underlies other names in the New Testament that are traditionally rendered differently in English: Judah and Jude.
Thus ( Leviticus 8: 23 ) is the middle verse in the Pentateuch ; all the names of Divinity mentioned in connection with Abraham are holy except ( Genesis 18: 3 ); ten passages in the Pentateuch are dotted ; three times the Pentateuch has the spelling לא where the reading is לו.
Earlier systems referred to this group by the name Monocotyledones, with Monocotyledoneae an earlier spelling ( these names may be used in any rank ).
Not counting differences in spelling, Thoth had many names and titles, like other goddesses and gods.
Up until 1940 the count for both names was near enough to equal, with in some cases companies carrying both spelling variations in successive years.
Prior to the wedding, on 24 November 1936, Prince Bernhard was granted Dutch citizenship and changed the spelling of his names from German to Dutch.
With Meleager is his beloved Atalanta ( both names given in the Etruscan spelling ), who will be parted by his death in a boar hunt presaged at the top of the composition.
As a result there are discrepancies regarding the spelling of names, because English translations maintain Middle Welsh orthography whereas Modern Welsh versions use Modern Welsh orthography.

spelling and both
From a theoretical perspective, both tao and dao transliterations if pronounced according to English spelling conventions are equally close to, or far from, the Standard Chinese pronunciation of.
The modern German word Wermut ( Wermuth in the spelling of Carpano's time ) means both wormwood and vermouth.
The Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English, published in 1999, is a descriptive study of both American and British English in which each chapter follows individual spelling conventions according to the preference of the main editor of that chapter.
At the time, both spellings of " Kenesaw " were used, but in the course of time, " Kennesaw Mountain " became the accepted spelling of the battle site.
The British occultist Aleister Crowley chose the spelling to differentiate the occult from stage magic and defined it as " the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will ", including both " mundane " acts of will as well as ritual magic.
The discoverers proposed the name " prometheum " ( the spelling was subsequently changed ), derived from Prometheus, the Titan in Greek mythology who stole fire from Mount Olympus and brought it down to humans, to symbolize " both the daring and the possible misuse of mankind's intellect.
While both spellings have historical precedence, standard American spelling is ' vocal cords '.
There is no standard spelling of German whiskies with distilleries using both " whisky " and " whiskey ".
However, many of Burgess ' loan-words, such as devochka (" girl ") and droog (" friend ") maintained both their relative spelling and meaning over the course of translation.
* Several nations both smaller and larger than the U. S. have simplified their spelling systems.
In some English versions of the alphabet, one or both of these may have their standard English spelling.
In both Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and in Chinese, there has been the additional development of fusing such phonetic elements with determinatives ; such " radical and phonetic " characters make up the bulk of the script, and both languages relegated simple rebuses to the spelling of foreign loan words and words from non-standard dialects.
He stated that PKARC was a derivative work of ARC, pointing out that comments in both programs were often identical, including spelling errors.
Metre per second ( U. S. spelling: meter per second ) is an SI derived unit of both speed ( scalar ) and velocity ( vector quantity which specifies both magnitude and a specific direction ), defined by distance in metres divided by time in seconds.
This concerns both ( a ) the phonetic spelling ( the typical Cockney phenomenon of " dropping the aitches "-and vice versa ) and ( b ) the innumerable slang expressions.
The following terms are similar, yet distinct, in both spelling and meaning, and can be easily confused: arteriosclerosis, arteriolosclerosis, and atherosclerosis.
The stress placement is Gaelic, too, but the first part of the name may have been influenced by its Scots / English counterpart in both pronunciation and spelling, not just reduced ; cf.
This seems most unlikely when one considers that Stark counties in Ohio ( 1808 ) and Illinois ( 1839 ) both preceded Starke County's organization and offered clear precedence and guidance on the spelling of the name, not to mention other numerous settlements within the United States named after the General also predating Starke County.
The local newspaper, however, the Mountaintop Eagle, uses the Mountaintop spelling in both its title as well as any reference to its location

spelling and 1609
His Ortografía castellana ( 1609 ), published in that city, contains ingenious and practical proposals for the reform of Spanish spelling.
* The Gull's Hornbook ( 1609, modern spelling ) at Big Wind

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