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I would guess it's always spelling and never "speling" because the root word is spell.jb1111 said:Two LLs, all the way.
I was taught phonetics in grade school. Apparently the US official determiners of proper speling decided otherwise.
Says the person who spells things much differently than anyone in England did in the past. I always get a laugh out of the people who don't get how languages work. Do you write everything using Shakespeare's spelling? You don't...? Why not? How about English from a thousand years ago? Wow, almost none of your words are spelled "properly".jb1111 said:Two LLs, all the way.
I was taught phonetics in grade school. Apparently the US official determiners of proper speling decided otherwise.
Phonetics, man, phonetics. I prefer phonetics over modern, non-phonetic speling, but that's just me I guess.H.C. said:Says the person who spells things much differently than anyone in England did in the past. I always get a laugh out of the people who don't get how languages work. Do you write everything using Shakespeare's spelling? You don't...? Why not? How about English from a thousand years ago? Wow, almost none of your words are spelled "properly".
Yet it's not phonetic. Across even the small country on England the pronunciation of this word has several IPA pronunciations. Brush up on your phonetics!jb1111 said:Phonetics, man, phonetics. I prefer phonetics over modern, non-phonetic speling, but that's just me I guess.
I myself don't spel the way they did in the 1500's, or even the 1600's for that matter. But I also loathe modern, creative American spelings like "tonite", "rite", "nite" and the like. I guess that makes me diferent. So be it.