Spelt vs. spelled - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Spelled is not a recent Americanism as many people assume (including some who have commented on this post) Both spelled and spelt are old, and examples of each are easily found in historical Google Books searches covering the 17th and 18th centuries
Why is it spelled curiosity instead of curiousity? Since I have spelled the word this way my whole life and none of my English teachers professors ever crossed out this "misspelling," is it not technically incorrect, just discouraged? Or perhaps it is archaic, which is why I could only find it defined in a legal dictionary with a capital "C:" Curiousity, not curiousity
grammar - to be spelled as or to be spelled by? - English Language . . . I would say "spelled with" as mentioned in a comment Or I would use no preposition at all exaggerated" is spelled with double "g" there are a few words in English where the "g" sound is spelled "gg" Google Ngram Viewer produces a few "spelled by" and "spelled as", though
What is this famous example of the absurdity of English spelling? A long time ago I read about this funny example posited by some relatively well-known author who spelled a word (I forget the word) in the most difficult way possible, but in a way that was totally congruent with orthographic rules from other words of English
Why is the spelling of pronounce and pronunciation different? That could be the reason why they are spelled pronounced differently pronunciation: early 15c , "mode in which a word is pronounced," from L pronuntiationem (nom pronuntiatio) "act of speaking," pronounce:
Acronyms and Initialisms- Uppercase, Lowercase, or either The Chicago Manual of Style, sixteenth edition (2010) briefly addresses the question of whether the spelled-out form of an initialism or acronym should be initial-capped if the short form is capitalized, at 10 6 Capital versus lowercase for acronyms and initialisms:
Why does the word emcee exist? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Others, such as teevee (TV, television), deejay, (DJ, disc jockey), See-Threepio (C-3PO, Star Wars robot) are easily understood, but the spelled-out versions aren't as popular as the initialisms I assume people calling themselves dj Pee Tee , dj Jay Kay , etc are bored with "deejay", but still like using the technique on their own names
Should it be doxxed doxxing or doxed doxing? Rules for doubling the last consonant when adding -ed, I mentioned another word that you might see spelled with a double xx before -ing or -ed: exxed (as in "exxed out") As you can see from the answers to that question, the rules of consonant doubling in English spelling have some exceptions, so the fact that a spelling is irregular is not
Dammit vs. damnit - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The usage stats from the British National Corpus (BNC) look as follows: ALL SPOKEN FICTION MAGAZINE NEWSPAPER ACADEMIC NON-ACAD MISC dammit 125 3 99 3 8 0 7 5 damnit no results damn it 158 12 137 1 1 0 2 5