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The Corona Centennial High football team has an interesting blend of players spelling their similar first names differently, leaving coach Matt Logan to be the referee as to which parents got the spelling correct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
"Charging parents just to sit with their children is a rip-off, plain and simple," he added, and being "hit with a hefty fee for a simple spelling mistake on a booking form isn't right either".
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
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
Once he was safely in Britain, MI6 shared his intelligence with the CIA, spelling out the full extent of the KGB’s Iranian ambitions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
I have preserved original spelling and punctuation in quotations, except that I have regularized ‘u’ and ‘v’, and ‘i’ and ‘j’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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The predictive text is supposed to learn your style and improve over time, but depending on the fixes you do or don’t accept, it can learn incorrect spellings in place of correct ones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
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
When two acceptable spellings are listed for the same word, use the first, because it may be more common.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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