The spelling Ἀπόλλων had almost superseded all other forms by the beginning of the common era, but the Doric form Απέλλων is more archaic, derived from an earlier * Απέλjων.

When an alphabet is adopted or developed for use in representing a given language, an orthography generally comes into being, providing rules for the spelling of words in that language.

Similarly, the Italian verb corresponding to ' spell ( out )', compitare, is unknown to many Italians because the act of spelling itself is rarely needed: Italian spelling is highly phonemic.

In standard Spanish, it is possible to tell the pronunciation of a word from its spelling, but not vice versa ; this is because certain phonemes can be represented in more than one way, but a given letter is consistently pronounced.

For English, this is partly because the Great Vowel Shift occurred after the orthography was established, and because English has acquired a large number of loanwords at different times, retaining their original spelling at varying levels.

Bolivian Sign Language, for example, is essentially ASL, apart from changes in initialized signs to make them match the spelling of Spanish.

The Greek ( LXX ) spelling in this passage is Archad.

The can be used in Applesoft BASIC as a shortcut for " PRINT ", though spelling out the word is not only acceptable but canonical — Applesoft converted "?

Armour or armor ( see spelling differences ) is protective covering used to prevent damage from being inflicted to an object, individual or a vehicle through use of direct contact weapons or projectiles, usually during combat, or from damage caused by a potentially dangerous environment or action ( e. g., cycling, construction sites, etc .).

Ayahuasca is the Hispanicized spelling of a word in the Quechua languages, which are spoken in the Andean states of Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia.

In Welsh, the shortened form Y Fenni may have come into use for a very short period after about the 15th century, although pronounced similarly in English or Welsh the English spelling Abergavenny is in general use.

The spelling and names in both the 1609 – 1610 Douay Old Testament ( and in the 1582 Rheims New Testament ) and the 1749 revision by Bishop Challoner ( the edition currently in print used by many Catholics, and the source of traditional Catholic spellings in English ) and in the Septuagint ( an ancient translation of the Old Testament in to Greek, which is widely used by the Eastern Orthodox instead of the Masoretic text ) differ from those spellings and names used in modern editions which are derived from the Hebrew Masoretic text.

In Buddhism, a bodhisattva ( bodhisattva ; bodhisatta ) is either an enlightened ( bodhi ) existence ( sattva ) or an enlightenment-being or, given the variant Sanskrit spelling satva rather than sattva, " heroic-minded one ( satva ) for enlightenment ( bodhi ).

Part of the Gaelic lexicon, this spelling suggests a Germanic ( Saxon ) origin, as the ' w ' is most likely pronounced as a ' v '.

Beltane () is the anglicised spelling of the Goidelic name for either the month of May or the festival held on the first day of May.

Irish bua ( Classical Irish buadh ), Buaidheach, Welsh buddugoliaeth ), and that the correct spelling of the name in the British language is Boudica, pronounced ( the closest English equivalent to the vowel in the first syllable is the ow in " bow-and-arrow ").

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.

For example, the spelling of the Thai word for " beer " retains a letter for the final consonant " r " present in the English word it was borrowed from, but silences it.

* A language may use different sets of symbols or different rules for distinct sets of vocabulary items, such as the Japanese hiragana and katakana syllabaries, or the various rules in English for spelling words from Latin and Greek, or the original Germanic vocabulary.

Even English has general, albeit complex, rules that predict pronunciation from spelling, and these rules are successful most of the time ; rules to predict spelling from the pronunciation have a higher failure rate.

These can range from simple spelling changes and word forms to switching the entire writing system itself, as when Turkey switched from the Arabic alphabet to a Turkish alphabet of Latin origin.

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.

The spelling " Christ " is attested from the 14th century.

The difference between the pronunciation and spelling of " chicano " and " mexicano " stems from the fact that the modern-day Spanish language experienced a change in pronunciation regarding a majority of words containing the " x " ( for example: México, Ximenez, Xavier, Xarabe ).

* 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.

Canada's automobile industry, on the other hand, has been dominated by American firms from its inception, explaining why Canadians use the American spelling of tire ( hence, " Canadian Tire ") and American terminology for the parts of automobiles ( for example, truck instead of lorry, gasoline instead of petrol, trunk instead of boot ).

While the language has continued to change in all of these places, modern Canadian English has inherited significant vocabulary and spelling from the shared political and social institutions of Commonwealth countries.

The term cabal derives from Kabbalah ( a word that has numerous spelling variations ), the mystical interpretation ( of Babylonian origin ) of the Hebrew scripture, and originally meant either an occult doctrine or a secret.

Civil defense ( Civil defence ), ( see spelling differences ) or civil protection is an effort to protect the citizens of a state ( generally non-combatants ) from military attack.

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.

The work's title is A Szent Pál levelei magyar nyelven ( In original spelling: Az zenth Paal leueley magyar nyeluen ), i. e. The letters of Saint Paul in the Hungarian language.

* Haddeby is the modern German spelling for the administrative district around the site of the original town.

Their original alphabet was based on a spelling reform for English known as the Romic alphabet, but in order to make it usable for other languages, the values of the symbols were allowed to vary from language to language.

Each word retains its original spelling, pronunciation, and meanings.

This entry notes kluge, which is now often spelled kludge, " was the original spelling, reported around computers as far back as the mid-1950s and, at that time, used exclusively of hardware kluges ".

( While the name in this title is pronounced as in the currently popular spelling " Mariah ," the original spelling is the classical spelling of " Maria.

The spelling rhyme ( from original rime ) was introduced at the beginning of the Modern English period, due to a learned ( but etymologically incorrect ) association with Greek ( rhythmos, rhythm ).

Transliteration attempts to use a one-to-one correspondence and be exact, so that an informed reader should be able to reconstruct the original spelling of unknown transliterated words.

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.

( Cited as GS in the text, the Roman numeral indicates the volume and the Arabic figure the page ; the original German spelling has been modernized.

Contrary to the original algorithm whose application is limited to English only, this version takes into account spelling peculiarities of a number of other languages.

Another translation used the original English spelling of Nadsat terms.

In the United States, Dodd used the " Fathers ' Day " spelling on her original petition for the holiday, but the spelling " Father's Day " was already used in 1913 when a bill was introduced to the U. S. Congress as the first attempt to establish the holiday, and it was still spelled the same way when its creator was commended in 2008 by the U. S. Congress.

Gerard NeCastro ( closer to original spelling ) in his collection Medieval and Renaissance Drama.

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.

Unlike spelling reforms, we can actually keep a word's original spelling intact but add pronunciation information to it, e. g. using diacritics.

Sitsylt is the original Welsh spelling of the anglicised Cecil.

These involved the transcription of many Portuguese words that were formerly written in their original spelling, for example, educação → edukasaun " education ", and colonialismo → kolonializmu " colonialism ".