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!

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 ).

Although Hogmanay is currently the predominant spelling and pronunciation, a number of variant spellings and pronunciations have been recorded, including:

Carl is the spelling variant he used for one company, C. Benz Söhne, he formed with his son Eugen after leaving the active management of his long standing company, but remaining on its board of directors for the rest of his life ( through its merger with Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft in which the two companies became Daimler-Benz ), and it is used for his autobiography by a recent publisher.

This spelling variant has been copied often and may be found frequently.

* a variant spelling for caber

** Mickey, spelling variant

The variant spelling " smilie " is not as common, but the plural form " smilies " is commonly used.

The variant spelling Stix was sometimes used in translations of Classical Greek before the 20th century.

Originating in the early 17th century, the now obsolete adjective whist and variant spelling wist ( in which the word wistful has its roots ), meant quiet, silent, and / or attentive.

The spelling barbeque is given in Merriam-Webster OnLine as a variant spelling, while the Oxford English Dictionary states that barbecue is " often misspelled as barbeque ".

The term is not a variant spelling of " playwrite ", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder ( as in a wheelwright or cartwright ).

USS Merrimack, or variant spelling USS Merrimac, may be any one of several ships commissioned in the United States Navy and named after the Merrimack River.

Michif, Mechif or Métchif is a phonetic spelling of the Métis pronunciation of Métif, a variant of Métis.

One of his pupils was Lodewijk Elzevir ( 1547 – 1617 ), who established the largest bookshop and printing works in Leiden, a business continued by his descendants through 1712 and the name subsequently adopted ( in a variant spelling ) by contemporary publisher Elsevier.

Similarly, while some believe that racket came about as a misspelling of racquet, racket is in fact the older spelling: it has been in use in British English since the 16th century, with racquet only showing up later in the 19th century as a variant of racket.

* Tʉtsanoo Yehkʉ ( probably a variant spelling of Kʉhtsʉtʉʉka )

The Mackintosh raincoat ( the variant spelling is now standard ) is named for him.

* Caster, a type of wheel ( spelling variant )

It was written in the İske imlâ variant of the Arabic script, but actual spelling varied regionally.

* A variant spelling for Freedonia, the Marx Brothers ' imaginary country

The word " tire " thus emerged as a variant spelling to refer to the metal bands used to tie wheels.

" indicates the answer is a variant spelling ( e. g., EMEER instead of EMIR ), while the use of foreign language or a foreign place name within the clue indicates that the answer is also in a foreign language.

In the fast-paced or Super Chinese Checkers variant, played in Mainland China and popular in France, a piece may hop over a non-adjacent piece.

The term " democracy " is sometimes used as shorthand for liberal democracy, which is a variant of representative democracy that may include elements such as political pluralism ; equality before the law ; the right to petition elected officials for redress of grievances ; due process ; civil liberties ; human rights ; and elements of civil society outside the government.

Those students who regard these particular themes as primitive, nevertheless do not generally dispute that other parts of the Gospel may be late and anachronistic ; while those students who reject the authenticity of these particular themes do not generally dispute that other parts of the Gospel could be transmitting variant readings from antiquity.

* Cosmetics may contain a non-gelling variant of gelatin under the name hydrolyzed collagen.

* Hemoglobin H ( β < sub > 4 </ sub >)-A variant form of hemoglobin, formed by a tetramer of β chains, which may be present in variants of α thalassemia.

* Hemoglobin Barts ( γ < sub > 4 </ sub >)-A variant form of hemoglobin, formed by a tetramer of γ chains, which may be present in variants of α thalassemia.

Rheinberg illumination is a special variant of dark field illumination in which transparent, colored filters are inserted just before the condenser so that light rays at high aperture are differently colored than those at low aperture ( i. e. the background to the specimen may be blue while the object appears self-luminous red ).

Montezuma, Moctezuma, Moteczoma, Motecuhzoma, Moteuczomah, Mwatazuma, are variant spellings and may refer to:

If one wishes to employ the notation for a different purpose ( such as denoting open intervals on the real number line ) the ordered pair may be denoted by the variant notation

Cards may be dealt either face-up or face-down, depending on the variant of poker being played.

These may be jokers, or they may be normal ranked and suited cards pressed into wild card duty (" deuces wild " is a common variant ).

One may declare a number of cards to draw in a draw poker game ( which is typically not binding ), or one may declare some other choice specific to the variant being played.

A trait is a distinct variant of a phenotypic character of an organism that may be inherited, be environmentally determined or be a combination of the two.

According to this account, the 1974 variant of the text, which was published by one of Thompson's former initiates, may represent one of the earlier drafts.

Interpreted thus, Harlequin's distinctive motley costume may be a stylized variant of Zanni's plain white garb, designed to reflect the ad-hoc patching necessary to prevent the garment's degradation.

Traditional black-tie Lowland dress is a variant of the normal black tie that includes tartan trews rather than the usual trousers and may include a suitable kilt jacket instead of the dinner jacket.

In Latin America, wild ' black panthers ' may be black jaguars ( Panthera onca ); in Asia and Africa, black leopards ( Panthera pardus ); in Asia, possibly the very rare black tigers ( Panthera tigris ); and in North America they may be black jaguars or possibly black cougars ( Puma concolor – although this has not been proven to have a black variant ), or smaller cats.

For any given term, one dictionary may enter only lowercase or only cap, whereas other dictionaries may recognize the capitalized version as a variant, either equally common as, or less common than, the first-listed styling ( marked with labels such as " or ", " also ", " often ", or " sometimes ").

In their homes or in non-chain restaurants, people in or from the United States may eat a thick type of chip, more similar to the British variant, sometimes referred to as home fries or steak fries.