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!

Amos Bronson, the oldest of eight children, later changed the spelling to " Alcott " and dropped his first name.

As a teenager, she changed the spelling of her name to " Abbie " before choosing to use only " May ".

In Gnostic cosmology, the 7 letters spelling its name represent each of the 7 classic planets — Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

Variations of the spelling of his name include Abd ar-Rahman I, Abdul Rahman I and Abderraman I.

** BACH motif, a sequence of notes spelling his name

The spelling of his name was changed after the beginning of the series ; his nameplate and office door spells his surname " McVicar " in early episodes.

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 ").

Some older astronomy books give an alternative spelling of the name, Camelopardus.

Also, if a caller has an unusual name, they will inquire about the spelling, pronunciation, and / or origin of their name.

He changed the spelling of his name in 1734, because the fact that his surname ' Home ' was pronounced ' Hume ' in Scotland was not known in England.

The name was created in 1931 by the DAT Motorcar Co. for a new car model, spelling it as " Datson " to indicate its smaller size when compared to the existing, larger DAT car.

Accounts vary as to how and when the German name Eisenhauer was changed to a more American spelling of Eisenhower.

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.

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 ”).

Those without knowledge of Irish omitted the dot, spelling the name as Dublin.

He worked for various newspapers in the Rocky Mountain area ; at one of those, the spelling of his last name was changed from " Runyan " to " Runyon ," a change he let stand.

The town's name ( with the archaic spelling ) continues to form part of the title to The Royal Irish Regiment ( 27th ( Inniskilling ) 83rd and 87th and Ulster Defence Regiment ).

Geoffrey of Monmouth Latinised this to Caliburnus ( likely influenced by the medieval Latin spelling calibs of Classical Latin chalybs, from Greek " χάλυψ ", " steel "), the name of Arthur's sword in his 12th-century work Historia Regum Britanniae.

The name Yale is the English spelling of the Welsh place name, Iâl.

In India, the spelling Xavier is almost always used, and the name is quite common among Christians, especially in the southern states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and more common in Goa.

In the First Folio his name is spelled " Falstaffe ", so Shakespeare may have directly appropriated the spelling of the name he used in the earlier play.

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.

At the other extreme are languages such as English, where the spelling of many words simply has to be memorized as they do not correspond to sounds in a consistent way.

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.

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.

Much like the relationship between British English and American English, the Austrian and German varieties differ in minor respects ( e. g., spelling, word usage and grammar ) but are recognizably equivalent and largely mutually intelligible.

In particular spelling in English only slowly became fixed.

He was a powerful supporter of the movement for spelling reform as a means of promoting the spread of the English language.

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 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.

The breast spelling conforms to the Scottish and North English dialectal pronunciations.

The spelling Christ ( Greek Genitive:, toú Christoú ,; Nominative:, ho Christós ) in English was standardized in the 18th century, when, in the spirit of the Enlightenment, the spelling of certain words was changed to fit their Greek or Latin origins.

Since it reflects spoken language, it does not use the positional system as in Arabic numerals, in the same way that spelling out numbers in English does not.

Canadian English spelling is largely a blend of British and American conventions.

Canadian spelling of the English language combines British and American conventions.

* 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.

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.

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