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nounforming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usagetype of:
Definition that contains spelling
- style editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display
- spell orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of
- cheer the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom
- sunshine the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom
- ulysses (Roman mythology) Roman spelling for Odysseus
- speller an introductory textbook to teach spelling
- cheerfulness the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom
- eye dialect the use of misspellings to identify a colloquial or uneducated speaker
- homophone two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
- orthoepist a practitioner of orthoepy (especially one of the 17th or 18th century scholars who proposed to reform English spelling so it would reflect pronunciation more closely)