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For changing spelling inside quoted text, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style § Original wording. "WP:MOSS" redirects here. For the typo-cleanup project, see Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss. The following is a handy reference for editors, listing various common spelling differences between national varieties of English.
In the other direction, / iː / can be spelled in at least 18~21 different ways: be ( cede ), ski ( machine ), bologna (GA), algae, quay, beach, bee, deceit, people, key, keyed, field ( hygiene ), amoeba, chamois (GA), dengue (GA), beguine, guyot, and ynambu (See Sound-to-spelling correspondences ).
Spelling is a set of conventions for written language regarding how graphemes should correspond to the sounds of spoken language. Spelling is one of the elements of orthography, and highly standardized spelling is a prescriptive element. Spellings originated as transcriptions of the sounds of speech according to the alphabetic principle.
British and other Commonwealth English use the ending -logue while American English commonly uses the ending -log for words like analog (ue), catalog (ue), dialog (ue), homolog (ue), etc, etymologically derived from Greek -λόγος -logos ("one who speaks (in a certain manner)").
An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word boundaries, emphasis, and punctuation . Most national and international languages have an established writing system that have undergone substantial standardization, thus exhibiting less dialect variation than the spoken ...
See media help. The names of the letters are commonly spelled out in compound words and initialisms (e.g., tee-shirt, deejay, emcee, okay, etc.), derived forms (e.g., exed out, effing, to eff and blind, aitchless, etc.), and objects named after letters (e.g., en and em in printing, and wye in railroading). The spellings listed below are from ...
The precise definition has varied over the years, but scherzo often refers to a movement that replaces the minuet as the third movement in a four-movement work, such as a symphony, sonata, or string quartet. The term can also refer to a fast-moving humorous composition that may or may not be part of a larger work.
Kawaii. Kawaii ( Japanese: かわいい or 可愛い, IPA: [kawaiꜜi]; 'lovely', 'loveable', 'cute', or 'adorable') [1] is the culture of cuteness in Japan. [2] [3] [4] It can refer to items, humans, and non-humans that are charming, vulnerable, shy, and childlike. [2]
Jacqueline comes from French, as the feminine form of Jacques (English James). Jacques originated from ' Jacob ', which is derived from the Hebrew meaning 'may God protect' or 'supplanter'. Supplanter refers to a person who replaces someone or a thing of lesser value, and this Hebrew meaning refers to Jacob's supplanting Esau as recorded in the ...
20fed Mai 1999 or 20 fed Mai 1999 (The suffix indicates an ordinal number, like "th" in English.) The month–day–year order (for example "Mai 20, 1999") was previously more common: it is usual to see a Welsh month–day–year date next to an English day–month–year date on a bilingual plaque from the latter half of the 20th century.