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.

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.

Abbreviations have been used as long as phonetic scripts have existed, in some sense actually being more common in early literacy, where spelling out a whole word was often avoided, initial letters commonly being used to represent words in specific application.

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!

As the initial spelling on stones was ' Abrasax ' ( Αβρασαξ ), the spelling of ' Abraxas ' seen today probably originates in the confusion made between the Greek letters Sigma and Xi in the Latin transliteration.

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

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

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.

Boudica (; alternative spelling: Boudicca ), also known as Boadicea and known in Welsh as Buddug ( d. AD 60 or 61 ) was queen of the British Iceni tribe who led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire.

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.

The " sh " sound was dropped and in most, but not all, cases accompanied by a change of spelling (" x " to " j ").

In horticulture, the spelling clon was used until the twentieth century ; the final e came into use to indicate the vowel is a " long o " instead of a " short o ".< ref >

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.

He was proud of his paternal ancestor, a Franco-Swiss immigrant Jacob Trumbo ( likely anglicized spelling ), who settled in the colony of Virginia in 1736.

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.

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.

In the former role, it was later replaced in the classic Greek alphabet by Eta ( Η ), which was taken over from eastern Ionic alphabets, while in the latter role it was replaced by the digraph spelling ΕΙ.

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 ”).

His most famous blunder occurred when he altered 12 year old student William Figueroa's correct spelling of " potato " to " potatoe " at the Munoz Rivera Elementary School spelling bee in Trenton, New Jersey, on June 15, 1992.

But there is general agreement that when quoting the proper name printed on a label, the spelling that is used on the label should not be altered.

He used the standard German spelling Schönberg until after his move to the United States in 1934 ( Steinberg 1995, 463 ), whereupon he altered it to Schoenberg " in deference to American practice " ( Foss 1951, 401 ), though one writer claims he made the change a year earlier ( Ross 2007, 45 ).

" The original word was altered to its current spelling, thus making pronunciation easier.

The name of the town is an altered spelling of Garoga.

In 1887, it altered the spelling of its name to Whitesboro.

Georgia town of Toomsboro, though with a slightly altered spelling.

ET with the launch of a primetime block called SNICK, which was home to shows such as Are You Afraid of the Dark ?, Clarissa Explains It All, Roundhouse, All That, The Amanda Show and Kenan & Kel ; in 2004, the block was reformatted as the Saturday edition of TEENick ( which originally debuted on Sunday evenings in 2000 ), and the Saturday night block continues today without an official block name ( though A Night of Premieres is occasionally used when two or more programs feature new episodes on that night ); the TEENick branding, with its spelling altered to TeenNick, has since been used on the Nickelodeon sister channel previously known as The N. In June 1993, Nickelodeon resumed its magazine brand, Nickelodeon Magazine.

On 15 August 1998, McCoy and Pettitt held a press conference at the Zillo Festival in Germany, announcing their future plans to collaborate under two separate monikers, Fields of the Nephilim ( along with the Wright brothers ) and The Nephilim ( an altered spelling of McCoy's solo project ).< ref >

The spelling was later altered to Solund by royal decree on 16 November 1923.

The spelling was altered to Solund on 16 November 1923.

These may now have a spelling as in the original form or may be somewhat altered in the transition into English.

Her given name was Jane, but she altered the spelling of her name to the Irish equivalent — Sinéad — later in life.

In 1951, while the radio version was still on the air, Family Theater moved to television, and the spelling of the title was altered ( Family Theatre ).

The spelling of the village has altered over the centuries: Tatenhala ( 1280 ), Tattenhall ( 1289 ), Tatnall ( 1473 ), Tottenhall ( 1553 ) and Tettenhall ( 1649 ).

The word " alcohol ", for instance, derives from the Arabic al-kuhl, al being an article, yet " the alcohol " is universally accepted as good grammar ; relevant differences, however, are that a ) hoi polloi is transliterated but otherwise unmodified, whereas alcohol is altered in both pronunciation and associated spelling to form an independent word, and b ) hoi polloi is left standing as a multiple-word phrase, with one word devoted exclusively to the function of the definite article, whereas in alcohol the grammatical particle serving as an article is assimilated into the ( heavily modified ) word.

It was also a common name amongst early Christians, though the spelling was altered by association with the Latin beatus, meaning " blessed ".

It was also a common name amongst early Christians, though the spelling was altered by association with the Latin beatus, meaning " blessed ".

* Booneville, Arkansas, an altered spelling of Bonneville

His fusion of the morphological, phonetic, and historic principles of Russian orthography remains valid to this day, though both the Russian alphabet and the writing of many individual words have been altered through a complicated but extremely consistent system of spelling rules that tell which of two vowels to use under all conditions.

However, for native or early borrowed words affected by palatalization, English has generally altered the spelling after the pronunciation ( Examples include cheap, church, cheese, churn from, and yell, yarn, yearn, yeast from.

Initially known as The Veruccas, the band altered the spelling of their name to " The Varukers " in order to convey more aggression.