Word: spelt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...getting up full steam on Darwinism when he jumps the track and chugs off on a discussion of the English language. "An intelligent child who is bidden to spell debt, and very properly spells it det, is caned for not spelling it with a b because Julius Caesar spelt the Latin word for it with...
...discovery that he could write "bomb" only 18 times a minute and "bom" 23 times. Stormed Shaw: "The extra sign is entirely senseless, it not only wastes the writer's time, but suggests an absurd mispronunciation, as if the word 'gun' were to be spelt 'gung...
Several thousand Americans and Australians observed V-E day by killing Japanese soldiers in such places as Okinawa, the Philippines, Tarakan. To them the symbol V-E did not exactly spell victory. It spelt something like this: now we can get full power for our war; now we can win it and get home sooner...
...could get back in the war. In the quiet Caribbean islands, "jungle-jolly" soldiers dreamed of a new world at home, free of second louies who kept telling them that they were doing as much as the boys at the front. For all U.S. sol- diers everywhere the invasion spelt HOME in big, bright letters, like the neon signs on the corner saloons...
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...