29 Quotes About Spelling

If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell. Beverly Cleary

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one. Unknown

Remind me to show you the latest e-mail from Courtney, " he said now, kicking at a rock on the sidewalk. "You won't believe how many different incorrect ways she spelled hors d'oeuvres within the span of a single paragraph. Aimee Agresti

Life is like a little book written With a whole lot of surprise. Spell a word that doesn´t fit in And that´s a spell in desguise. Ana Claudia Antunes

Sex is a three letter word even the worst speller in the world can spell. Chloe Thurlow

Thanks to the nation's testing mania (which I like to call 'No Child Left Untested' rather than 'No Child Left Behind'), children are being barraged with a nonstop volley of standardized tests. From kindergarten to graduate school, students are subjected to an unprecedented number of high-stakes tests Laurie E. Rozakis

One piece of wisdom a writer quickly learns ~ typos keep you humble. E.a. Bucchianeri

A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail. Ben Marcus

I need not repeat familiar arguments about the waste of teachers' time, and the difficulties thrown in the way of English children trying to learn their own language; or the fact that nobody without a visual memory for words ever succeeds in spelling conventionally, however highly educated he or she may be. George Bernard Shaw

Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling. Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that. Craig D. Lounsbrough

God, don't they teach you how to spell these days?"" No, " I answer. "They teach us to use spell-check. Jodi Picoult

Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar. Red Red Rover

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It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean. Jon J. Muth

If you take hyphens seriously, you will surely go mad. Oxford University Press

The police have no leads as yet on the person or persons who painted obscene suggestions on the buildings. One store owner said he was going to leave a dictionary on a public bench so the vandals could at least spell the obscenities correctly. Anne Bishop

I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I was a boy there was not a thing I could do creditably except spell according to the book. It was a poor and mean distinction, and I early learned to disenjoy it. I suppose that this is because the ability to spell correctly is a talent, not an acquirement. There is some dignity about an acquirement, because it is a product of your own labor. It is earned, whereas to be able to do a thing merely by the grace of God, and not by your own effort, transfers the thing to our heavenly home--where possibly it is a matter of pride and satisfaction, but it leaves you naked and bankrupt. Mark Twain

She knows that it's not my fault if I don't know how many Zs there are in LOSER. Lauren Child

#Twitter: proudly promoting ghastly grammar and silly misspelling since 2006. E.a. Bucchianeri

It's good netiquette to judge others by the the intent of their words not content of characters. NetworkEtiquette.net David Chiles

Percy, we're going to Polyphemus' island! Polyphemus is an S-i-k...a C-y-k..." She stamped her foot in frustration. As smart as she was, Annabeth was dyslexic, too. We could've been there all night while she tried to spell Cyclops. "You know what I mean! Rick Riordan

Really, it is unfair to say that English spelling is not an accurate rendering of speech. It is — it's only that it renders the speech of the 16th century. Guy Deutscher