Arvind V. Mahankali of Bayside, Queens, won the Scripps National Spelling Bee last week on the strength of his mastery of "knaidel," a Yiddish word of German origin (and, it turns out, somewhat ambiguous spelling) for the dumplings that go into, among other things, matzo ball soup.
It's dark and stormy, often foggy, directed by ambiguous signage spelled out in dead languages.
Matching metabolites by name is not an ideal solution, as many, possibly ambiguous, synonyms and spelling variants exist for the same metabolite [ 36].
We, therefore, decided to also match on the metabolite name, which has as disadvantage that there will often be a large number of, possibly ambiguous, synonyms and spelling variants [ 36].
Research on existing maps and related documents for a given area may reveal different names for the same features, variations in spelling, or ambiguous applications of names.
That submission is ambiguous (could Alton be under his spell?), and the uncertainty grows as we switch to another location, where a salty-haired fellow (Sam Shepard) gives orders to two subordinates.
Writing a lot means making lots of mistakes in terms of spelling, grammar, and more ambiguous ways.
These include false positive and false negative recognition issues arising from ambiguous names and from synonym and spelling variants, respectively.
Americans in their young republic were also already going into decline, too: Adams Sherman Hill, a Harvard professor of rhetoric, found "the work of even good scholars disfigured by bad spelling, confusing punctuation, ungrammatical, obscure, ambiguous, or inelegant expressions" in 1879.
An inherent drawback of such approaches, however, is the dependence on the quality and completeness of the dictionary and the methods of the underlying algorithm to recognize spelling variants and to resolve ambiguous names.
Critics said the use of the term "sympathy" was ambiguous and open to misinterpretation, adding that it was not spelled out who was meant by "fighters in Syria".
