Word: spelt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...husky man inan apron (Mr. Grant) is always good for a laugh. When he is surrounded by knitting matrons who gravely inform him that purl is spelt pee-yew, the appeal is irresistible...
Being a foreigner and imbued, as I am, with an unsuspecting credulity, the farthest I would go with any other language is assiduously to pronounce it in the way it is spelt . . . . and thereby suffer a great many humiliations at the hand of the studied mispronunciation of the English language...
...this particular case concerning the name of our former Premier mentioned in TIME, it happens that it is pronounced exactly as it is spelt, namely Phya Bahol...
...have failed to appreciate . . . the laudable and sensible attempts of our Sovereign's royal father to spelg the English language as it ought to be spelt. . . . The English language cannot be spelt, because there is no English alphabet. We make shift with a Latin alphabet...
...King has to spend an appreciable part of his time in signing his name, which should be spelt with three letters . . . with a result so equivocal that Herr Hitler speaks of him as King Gay Org. My surname has two sounds; but I have to spell it with four letters. . . . What chance has a Power that cannot spell so simple a sound as Shaw...