Word: rauleygh
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TIME errs in supposing that the letter in diversified spelynge (TIME, Nov. 15) purports to quote from the Elizabethan Sir Walter Ralegh, Rauleygh, or Rauley. It was written in 1898 by the critic who always spelt his name Raleigh and was later professor of English literature at Oxford...
...simplifying spelling was proposed last week in the London Times. Arising out of a discussion of Basic English (TIME, Aug. 16; Sept. 20), a letter-to-the-editor purported to quote the great Elizabethan, pipe-smoking Sir Walter Raleigh, who spelled his name three different ways (Ralegh, Rauleygh, Rauley) but never Raleigh. "Sir Walter's" simple suggestion: spell any way you like...
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