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[spel-ing] / ˈspɛl ɪŋ /
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In Bucharest, where he arrived in 1945, Paul Antschel became Paul Celan, the new name an anagrammatic rebirth from the Romanian spelling of “Ancel.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

The building features giant stone letters on the top spelling out part of a speech that Obama gave in 2015 in Selma, Alabama, the cradle of the civil rights movement.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

The Velvet Gang practices FFF: Fashion-Forward Filanthropy — an intentional spelling mistake, or “branding,” as Mariah calls it.

From Salon • May 22, 2026

“Of course, like the teams he played against this year, we know how great an offensive player he is. We just had a problem spelling it.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

Tansy said we had to look up the meanings of the words too, though we’d always thought just spelling them was plenty.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck



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