Sometimes a difference in spelling can identify whether the person with the name is male or female.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

For example, you might hear a student say to her friend that her spelling test was "as easy as falling off a log."

VOA: special.2009.06.07

Local people changed the spelling of the name and the area became known as Dolly Sods.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

All day Miss Sullivan kept touching Helen's hand, spelling words that gave Helen a language.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

"I think that text messaging has made students believe that it's far more acceptable than it actually is to just make screamingly atrocious spelling and grammatical errors."

VOA: special.2010.01.28

She said "Rand" was taken from the Russian alphabet spelling of "Rosenbaum."

VOA: special.2010.06.06

The traditional spelling is d-o-u-g-h-n-u-t but people often just spell it d-o-n-u-t.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

The orthography is the written system and spelling of a language.

VOA: special.2011.04.13

It was a short way of writing a different spelling of the words all correct. Some foreign-born people wrote all correct as o-l-l k-o-r-r-e-c-t, and used the letters O.K.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

They say that electronic mail is often informal, and so many people do not use proper spelling or grammar.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

"I think that text messaging has made students believe that it's far more acceptable than it actually is to just make screamingly atrocious spelling and grammatical errors,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

"Basically it's a freedom of expression,". Jansen says that while she has heard from frustrated educators about the new kinds of mistakes in spelling and grammar in student work, the expanding means of expression brings benefits to the classroom as well.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16