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spelling

[spel-ing] / ˈspɛl ɪŋ /
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Giles Mason, who runs the Take 5 to Stop Fraud campaign at UK Finance which represents the banking and finance industry, said scam emails used to be "riddled with spelling mistakes, poor grammar".

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

A trust gives you more control by spelling out your wishes in detail.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

Welcome to the mom chat, a group of 10, 20, 40 near-strangers with varying parenting philosophies, backgrounds, priorities—and spelling capabilities—discussing their most precious gift, their child.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

But worry not, even a viewer who doesn’t know who Blanchard is can surmise this correlation to the bigger picture thanks to Schoenbrun quite literally spelling it out for us.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

Ama tries to mirror the finger spelling, and Autumn gently corrects her.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Noah Webster, the creator of the first American dictionary of English, championed the spellings “opake,” “soop” and “spunge”—all of which now look like howlers waiting for a red pen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025

The so-called invading force of my generation assimilated to the point where our kids are named Brandon and Ashley in all sorts of spellings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2025

And because Jefferson's original moniker was spelled as Megalonyx, any other subsequent spellings of the name, like some that utilize the -onix suffix, are incorrect.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2024

In the girl's list, last year's number one 'Sophia' fell into eighth place after the organisation changed the way they count to include different spellings.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2023

The traditional spellings have just one s in the middle.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner



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