spellingn.²

Brit.

/ˈspɛlɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈspɛlɪŋ/

Etymology: < spell v.² So Dutch, Flemish, and West Frisian spelling.

a. The action, practice, or art of naming the letters of words, of reading letter by letter, or of expressing words by letters.

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society > communication > writing > spelling > [noun] > action of naming letters of word

spellingc1440

letter by letter1588

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 468/1 Spellynge, sillabicacio.

c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Augustine (1910) 8 Thus lerned he þe smale scienses, as spellyng, reding and constrewyng, in his ȝong age.

1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Evj^v Teache hym the maner of spelling, before we teache him to rede.

1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Espelement des syllables, a spelling of syllables.

1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. x. 151 The former knowledge of spelling.

1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §143 His eldest Son, yet in Coats, has play'd himself into Spelling with great eagerness.

1758 J. Armstrong Sketches 18 (heading) Of the modern art of spelling.

1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 270 Compositors..never can arrive to one regular way of Spelling.

1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1837) III. 343 There is one branch of learning without which learning itself cannot be railed at with common decency, namely, spelling.

1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue ii. 121 That which we call a settled orthography is a habit of spelling which admits only of rare modification.

b. U.S. A spelling bee, spelling-test. rare.

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society > communication > writing > spelling > [noun] > contest or test in spelling

spelling school1832

spelling bee1850

spelling1860

spelldown1943

1860 O. L. Jackson Colonel's Diary (1922) 23 The boys were anxious for a spelling in the evening.

1889 J. W. Riley Pipes o' Pan 45 How her face used to look in the twilight As I tuck her to spellin'.

1975 Budget (Sugarcreek, Ohio) 20 Mar. 14/3 The young folk are having german spellings once a week.

a. Manner of expressing or writing words with letters; orthography. Also figurative.

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society > communication > writing > spelling > [noun]

writinga1413

orthography1588

spellingc1661

speldering1876

c1661 Argyle's Last Will in Harl. Misc. (1746) VIII. 29/2 It is most evident, that the right Spelling of Covenant is Covetousness.

1693 J. Dryden Disc. conc. Satire in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires p. xxviii In the Criticism of Spelling, it ought to be with i and not with y.

1697 C. Leslie Snake in Grass (ed. 2) 112 By some unusual Spelling of some words.

1770 D. Dalrymple in G. Bannatyne Anc. Sc. Poems 271 From the spelling of the specimens..I incline to think [etc.].

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xviii. 245 The letter may still be read with all the original bad grammar and bad spelling.

1894 W. M. Lindsay Lat. Lang. i. §12 However natural it may appear for the Romans to have adopted Greek spelling.

b. A particular instance of this; a special collocation of letters representing a word.

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society > communication > writing > spelling > [noun] > way or mode of spelling word, particular instance

spell1702

spelling1738

1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. p. l Of these Spellings the Publick will meet with many Examples.

1758 J. Armstrong Sketches 18 An Author seems reduced to great Extremities, who flies to new Spellings to distinguish himself.

1811 W. Scott Let. Sept. (1932) II. 543 All the licenses of using obsolete words and uncommon spellings.

1894 W. M. Lindsay Lat. Lang. i. §8 The dates at which these spellings are first found on inscriptions.

Compounds

C1. General attributive. Also spelling-book n.

spelling card n.

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1850 C. M. Yonge Langley School xviii. 166 ‘Nobody’ left the gate open,..tore the spelling cards, scratched the slates.

1974 ‘J. le Carré’ Tinker, Tailor xxii. 186 Spelling cards lay spread over the floor.

spelling dictionary n.

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1725 T. Dyche (title) The spelling dictionary.

spelling experimenter n.

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1880–3 (title) The Spelling Experimenter... Conducted by W. R. Evans.

spelling-game n.

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1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 5504 Alphabet and spelling game, adapted for infant-schools and nurseries.

spelling-lesson n.

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1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. xii. 235 He had..the strongest desire..to resume spelling-lessons and half-text.

spelling match n.

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1845 H. Greeley in Publ. Mod. Lang. Soc. Amer. (1941) LVI. 501 It used to be the custom that the head of the first class and the next should choose sides for a ‘spelling match’.

1967 B. J. Banfill Pioneer Nurse xiii. 146 An invitation for all of us to an old-fashioned Spelling Match.

spelling mistake n.

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1966 N. Marsh Black Beech & Honeydew iii. 74 I won a Navy League Empire Prize..with an essay containing thirty-one spelling mistakes.

spelling-reform n.

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1848 A. J. Ellis (title) A plain statement of the objects and advantages of the spelling reform.

1873 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 2) ii. 179 Many proposals for spelling-reform have been made in this country and in America.

spelling reformer n.

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1849–50 (title) The Spelling Reformer. Edited by A. J. Ellis.

1908 G. K. Chesterton All Things Considered 220 Some spelling-reformers..do spell his name phonetically.

1936 Discovery May 164/2 Unlike many spelling reformers, he respects tradition and the ‘look’ of a word.

C2.

spelling pronunciation n. the pronunciation of a word according to its written form.

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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > accent > [noun] > pronunciation according to written form

spelling pronunciation1901

1901 E. Koeppel (title) Spelling-pronunciations.

1927 L. Bloomfield in Amer. Speech 2 438/1 This last feature is a fairly close parallel to our ‘spelling pronunciations’, such as the full form fore-head for forrid and the now perhaps accepted waist~coat and seam-stress for weskit and semstress.

1944 H. J. Uldall in E. P. Hamp et al. Readings in Linguistics II (1966) 149 If there have been cases of spelling-pronunciation, there have also been cases of pronunciation-spelling.

1977 P. Strevens New Orientations Teaching Eng. xii. 153 One further characteristic of American pronunciation that contrasts with British speech is the frequency of ‘spelling pronunciations’ in both place-names and proper names.

spelling school n. †(a) a building in which spelling is taught; (b) U.S. a contest in spelling.

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society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > other types of school

writing schoola1475

rectory1536

spelling school1704

greycoat1706

rural school1734

Charter School1763

home school1770

Philanthropine1797

British school1819

side school1826

prep school1829

trade school1829

Progymnasium1833

finishing-school1836

field schoola1840

field school1846

prairie school1851

graded school1852

model school1854

Philanthropinum1856

stagiary school1861

grade school1869

middle school1870

language school1878

correspondence school1889

day continuation school1889

prep1891

Sunday school1901

farm school1903

weekend school1907

Charter School1912

folk high school1914

pre-kindergarten1922

Rabfak1924

cram-shop1926

free school1926

crammer1931

composite school1943

outward-bound1943

blackboard jungle1954

pathshala1956

Vo-Tech1956

St. Trinian's1958

juku1962

cadre school1966

telecentre1967

academy2000

academy school2000

society > communication > writing > spelling > [noun] > contest or test in spelling

spelling school1832

spelling bee1850

spelling1860

spelldown1943

1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub Pref. 16 There is also, the Spelling School, a very spacious Building.

1832 E. M. Chamberlain Jrnl. 25 July in Indiana Mag. Hist. (1919) XV. 241 In the evening I appointed a spelling school at which I invited all the parents to attend.

1948 E. N. Dick Dixie Frontier 138 Backwoods debating societies, spelling schools, story telling, and singing helped to while away the time.

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spelling checker n. Computing a program which checks the spelling of words in files of text, usually by comparing them with a stored list of acceptable spellings.

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society > computing and information technology > software > [noun] > applications program > spellcheck

speller1980

spelling checker1980

spell-check1983

spell checker1983

1980 Communications ACM 23 676/3 There are two types of spelling programs: spelling checkers and spelling correctors.

1983 Trans. Philol. Soc. 37 A spelling-checker of the future..might recognize not merely non-English words, but words occurring in non-English positions.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	spelling
释义	† spellingn.¹ Etymology: < spell v.¹ Obsolete. Speaking, talking, discourse, utterance. In Old English esp. ‘idle or unprofitable talk’. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > [noun] speechc725 spellc888 tonguec897 spellingc1000 wordOE mathelingOE redec1275 sermonc1275 leeda1300 gale13.. speakc1300 speaking1303 ledenc1320 talea1325 parliamentc1325 winda1330 sermoningc1330 saying1340 melinga1375 talkingc1386 wordc1390 prolationa1393 carpinga1400 eloquencec1400 utteringc1400 language?c1450 reporturec1475 parleyc1490 locutionc1500 talk1539 discourse1545 report1548 tonguec1550 deliverance1553 oration1555 delivery1577 parling1582 parle1584 conveying1586 passage1598 perlocution1599 wording1604 bursta1616 ventilation1615 loquency1623 voicinga1626 verbocination1653 loquence1677 pronunciation1686 loquel1694 jawinga1731 talkee-talkee?1740 vocification1743 talkation1781 voicing1822 utterancy1827 voicing1831 the spoken word1832 outness1851 verbalization1851 voice1855 outgiving1865 stringing1886 praxis1950 c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 180 Forbugað idele spellunge, and dyslice blissa. c1030 Rule St. Benet (Logeman) 83 Idelnesse oððe spellingum [L. otioso aut fabulis]. c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 35 Spellunge & smechunge beoð i muð baðe..we schulen..speoken nu of spellunge. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 263 So that with spellinge of hir charmes Sche tok Eson in bothe hire armes. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 19951 Petre þam said o spelling þan O baptising þat iohn bigan. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021). spellingn.² Brit. /ˈspɛlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈspɛlɪŋ/ Etymology: < spell v.² So Dutch, Flemish, and West Frisian spelling. 1. a. The action, practice, or art of naming the letters of words, of reading letter by letter, or of expressing words by letters. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > spelling > [noun] > action of naming letters of word spellingc1440 letter by letter1588 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 468/1 Spellynge, sillabicacio. c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Augustine (1910) 8 Thus lerned he þe smale scienses, as spellyng, reding and constrewyng, in his ȝong age. 1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Evj^v Teache hym the maner of spelling, before we teache him to rede. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Espelement des syllables, a spelling of syllables. 1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. x. 151 The former knowledge of spelling. 1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §143 His eldest Son, yet in Coats, has play'd himself into Spelling with great eagerness. 1758 J. Armstrong Sketches 18 (heading) Of the modern art of spelling. 1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 270 Compositors..never can arrive to one regular way of Spelling. 1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1837) III. 343 There is one branch of learning without which learning itself cannot be railed at with common decency, namely, spelling. 1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue ii. 121 That which we call a settled orthography is a habit of spelling which admits only of rare modification. b. U.S. A spelling bee, spelling-test. rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > spelling > [noun] > contest or test in spelling spelling school1832 spelling bee1850 spelling1860 spelldown1943 1860 O. L. Jackson Colonel's Diary (1922) 23 The boys were anxious for a spelling in the evening. 1889 J. W. Riley Pipes o' Pan 45 How her face used to look in the twilight As I tuck her to spellin'. 1975 Budget (Sugarcreek, Ohio) 20 Mar. 14/3 The young folk are having german spellings once a week. 2. a. Manner of expressing or writing words with letters; orthography. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > spelling > [noun] writinga1413 orthography1588 spellingc1661 speldering1876 c1661 Argyle's Last Will in Harl. Misc. (1746) VIII. 29/2 It is most evident, that the right Spelling of Covenant is Covetousness. 1693 J. Dryden Disc. conc. Satire in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires p. xxviii In the Criticism of Spelling, it ought to be with i and not with y. 1697 C. Leslie Snake in Grass (ed. 2) 112 By some unusual Spelling of some words. 1770 D. Dalrymple in G. Bannatyne Anc. Sc. Poems 271 From the spelling of the specimens..I incline to think [etc.]. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xviii. 245 The letter may still be read with all the original bad grammar and bad spelling. 1894 W. M. Lindsay Lat. Lang. i. §12 However natural it may appear for the Romans to have adopted Greek spelling. b. A particular instance of this; a special collocation of letters representing a word. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > spelling > [noun] > way or mode of spelling word, particular instance spell1702 spelling1738 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. p. l Of these Spellings the Publick will meet with many Examples. 1758 J. Armstrong Sketches 18 An Author seems reduced to great Extremities, who flies to new Spellings to distinguish himself. 1811 W. Scott Let. Sept. (1932) II. 543 All the licenses of using obsolete words and uncommon spellings. 1894 W. M. Lindsay Lat. Lang. i. §8 The dates at which these spellings are first found on inscriptions. Compounds C1. General attributive. Also spelling-book n. spelling card n. ΚΠ 1850 C. M. Yonge Langley School xviii. 166 ‘Nobody’ left the gate open,..tore the spelling cards, scratched the slates. 1974 ‘J. le Carré’ Tinker, Tailor xxii. 186 Spelling cards lay spread over the floor. spelling dictionary n. ΚΠ 1725 T. Dyche (title) The spelling dictionary. spelling experimenter n. ΚΠ 1880–3 (title) The Spelling Experimenter... Conducted by W. R. Evans. spelling-game n. ΚΠ 1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 5504 Alphabet and spelling game, adapted for infant-schools and nurseries. spelling-lesson n. ΚΠ 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. xii. 235 He had..the strongest desire..to resume spelling-lessons and half-text. spelling match n. ΚΠ 1845 H. Greeley in Publ. Mod. Lang. Soc. Amer. (1941) LVI. 501 It used to be the custom that the head of the first class and the next should choose sides for a ‘spelling match’. 1967 B. J. Banfill Pioneer Nurse xiii. 146 An invitation for all of us to an old-fashioned Spelling Match. spelling mistake n. ΚΠ 1966 N. Marsh Black Beech & Honeydew iii. 74 I won a Navy League Empire Prize..with an essay containing thirty-one spelling mistakes. spelling-reform n. ΚΠ 1848 A. J. Ellis (title) A plain statement of the objects and advantages of the spelling reform. 1873 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 2) ii. 179 Many proposals for spelling-reform have been made in this country and in America. spelling reformer n. ΚΠ 1849–50 (title) The Spelling Reformer. Edited by A. J. Ellis. 1908 G. K. Chesterton All Things Considered 220 Some spelling-reformers..do spell his name phonetically. 1936 Discovery May 164/2 Unlike many spelling reformers, he respects tradition and the ‘look’ of a word. C2. spelling pronunciation n. the pronunciation of a word according to its written form. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > accent > [noun] > pronunciation according to written form spelling pronunciation1901 1901 E. Koeppel (title) Spelling-pronunciations. 1927 L. Bloomfield in Amer. Speech 2 438/1 This last feature is a fairly close parallel to our ‘spelling pronunciations’, such as the full form fore-head for forrid and the now perhaps accepted waist~coat and seam-stress for weskit and semstress. 1944 H. J. Uldall in E. P. Hamp et al. Readings in Linguistics II (1966) 149 If there have been cases of spelling-pronunciation, there have also been cases of pronunciation-spelling. 1977 P. Strevens New Orientations Teaching Eng. xii. 153 One further characteristic of American pronunciation that contrasts with British speech is the frequency of ‘spelling pronunciations’ in both place-names and proper names. spelling school n. †(a) a building in which spelling is taught; (b) U.S. a contest in spelling. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > other types of school writing schoola1475 rectory1536 spelling school1704 greycoat1706 rural school1734 Charter School1763 home school1770 Philanthropine1797 British school1819 side school1826 prep school1829 trade school1829 Progymnasium1833 finishing-school1836 field schoola1840 field school1846 prairie school1851 graded school1852 model school1854 Philanthropinum1856 stagiary school1861 grade school1869 middle school1870 language school1878 correspondence school1889 day continuation school1889 prep1891 Sunday school1901 farm school1903 weekend school1907 Charter School1912 folk high school1914 pre-kindergarten1922 Rabfak1924 cram-shop1926 free school1926 crammer1931 composite school1943 outward-bound1943 blackboard jungle1954 pathshala1956 Vo-Tech1956 St. Trinian's1958 juku1962 cadre school1966 telecentre1967 academy2000 academy school2000 society > communication > writing > spelling > [noun] > contest or test in spelling spelling school1832 spelling bee1850 spelling1860 spelldown1943 1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub Pref. 16 There is also, the Spelling School, a very spacious Building. 1832 E. M. Chamberlain Jrnl. 25 July in Indiana Mag. Hist. (1919) XV. 241 In the evening I appointed a spelling school at which I invited all the parents to attend. 1948 E. N. Dick Dixie Frontier 138 Backwoods debating societies, spelling schools, story telling, and singing helped to while away the time. Draft additions 1993 spelling checker n. Computing a program which checks the spelling of words in files of text, usually by comparing them with a stored list of acceptable spellings. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > software > [noun] > applications program > spellcheck speller1980 spelling checker1980 spell-check1983 spell checker1983 1980 Communications ACM 23 676/3 There are two types of spelling programs: spelling checkers and spelling correctors. 1983 Trans. Philol. Soc. 37 A spelling-checker of the future..might recognize not merely non-English words, but words occurring in non-English positions. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022). spellingn.³ Etymology: < spell v.⁴Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈspelling. The use or exercise of spells or charms. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > enchantment or casting spells > [noun] sigaldry?c1225 enchantery1297 enchantment1297 charminga1300 chantmentc1300 chantinga1382 forspeaking1483 fairyc1515 bewitching1535 enchanting1553 fascination1572 eye-biting1584 sparrow-blasting1589 effascination1624 enchant1634 maleficiation1649 spelling1665 glamour1793 weird1813 glamoury1821 ensorcellment1931 1665 C. Cotton Scarronnides 101 She'l make a Cowle-staffe, by her spelling, Amble like any double Gelding. 1939 D. Thomas Map of Love 15 Endure burial under the spelling wall. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2019). spellingn.⁴ Brit. /ˈspɛlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈspɛlɪŋ/ Etymology: < spell v.³ 1. Scottish. The practice of acting as a substitute for another or taking turns at some work or labour. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > [noun] > in work or sport relieving1822 pinch-hitting1901 spelling1920 1920 Glasgow Herald 16 Apr. 7 The Sheriff finds that the custom known as ‘spelling’ is recognised in the West of Scotland, and in this case the defender's stevedore assented to the pursuer ‘spelling’ for the regular employee. 1955 Times 17 Aug. 5/4 Organized ‘spelling’—that is to say, arrangements between members of a gang that they shall take it in turns to leave their work—is still to be found in Glasgow and Liverpool, in spite of many attempts to stamp it out. 1965 Daily Express 6 Aug. 4/5 ‘Spelling’ in Glasgow is the same as ‘welting’ in Liverpool. 2. Australian. Resting from work. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > times or periods of work > [noun] > rest or resting from work smoke-ho1874 spelling1911 stoppo1938 1911 Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 591/2 Old Davy..settled down on a selection near Grassmere which the Cornet Scrubber,..used as a spelling-place in his spare hours. 1926 B. Cronin Red Dawson ii. 36 There was need for their spelling before they sat in on the game in real earnest. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmas ˈspelling ˈspelling adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > enchantment or casting spells > [adjective] charming1382 witchinga1400 enchanting1555 conjuring1575 Circean1609 spellinga1616 effascinating1616 fascinating1618 becharming1638 fascinous1666 ensorcelling1883 a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) v. iv. 2 Vnchaine your spirits now with spelling Charmes. View more context for this quotation extracted from spellv.⁴ < n.¹c1000n.²c1440n.³1665n.⁴1911 as lemmas
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