Sentence examples for spelling matter from inspiring English sources
The Oxford academic and spelling blogger, whose latest book is "Does Spelling Matter?", said he was not proposing a spelling free-for-all but was inviting people to accept that spellings change.
In Does Spelling Matter? he agreed that to some extent children just have to knuckle down and learn spelling: it's an essential part of learning to read and write.
For Horobin, spelling matters – and, more to the point, our existing spelling matters.
But Mr. Morley argued spelling matters: "Requiring correct spelling is not absurd," he said.
LONDON — A professor of English at one of the world's most venerable centers of learning has outraged language purists by challenging whether spelling matters.
Getting an entire column right — spelling matters — means 20 points.
Good spelling matters, of course, and as someone who has difficulty spelling even the simplest words aloud, I applaud anyone who dares compete in a spelling bee at any level.
The spelling matters, she tells us: it has teeth, the better to arm herself against an upbringing of ten different schools, nine different homes and fickle foster parents who want her and then don't anymore.
But as anyone who's ever flinched at "L8R" will know, the way you spell it matters.
But just to confuse matters, spelling can reassert itself, with speakers taking their cue from the arrangement of letters on the page rather than what they hear.
