Sentence examples for native spelling from inspiring English sources

A jewel of a peninsula on the Adriatic Lots of information on lodging, restaurants, festivals and landmarks is available at www.istra.com (Istra is the native spelling of Istria).

Given the native spelling, and your newspaper's inclination to follow British practice, might I suggest that "arsehole" would have been a better and, to these ears, more euphonious rendering? Inexplicably, your style guide is silent on this particular point of usage.Jakob WhitfieldLondon.

Rough-edged at times in this novel, it still casts a native spell: "I got it into gear and onto the Old Highway and drove east, running away from the sunlit rim of the plains.

A New Orleans native, Spell graduated from St . Martins Episcopal School before receiving his undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.

He chose the name "IronLogik" because his childhood was spent behind the Iron Curtain and 'logic' in his native tongue is spelled 'logik.'logik

So now Mr. Ackerman, a Queens native who had trouble spelling Nissequogue 10 years ago when the Suffolk County river became the eastern boundary of his district, must say goodbye to the 163,000 Suffolk residents he has represented since 1992.

The 31-year-old's previous playing experience was in his native Spain, including a spell at Alicante.

Wellcome fell under the spell of Native American lore and the wonders of his uncle's drugstore during his youth in America.

La Condamine described "caoutchouc" (the French spelling of a native term for "weeping wood") as the condensed juice of the Hevea tree, and in 1736 he sent rubber samples to Europe.

"This place has a small-town feel, with small-town values," said Jack Smith, a retired special education teacher who is the president of the Cumsewogue Historical Society, which uses a slightly different spelling of the Native American word ultimately replaced as the area's name by "Port Jefferson Station".

The man who had remade physics in his perfectly phonetic native tongue struggled with English spelling but nonetheless "learned to write simple, sometimes elegant, English sentences".