Sentence examples for standardized spelling from inspiring English sources

This is weird for a host of reasons, not least because I am Sichuanese (Pinyin standardized spelling: "Si," not "Sze") — born, bred, and brined.

That the family name changed from Punch to Bunch was not uncommon in an era when there was no standardized spelling, Shumway said.

Despite the difference in surname, researchers note that there was no standardized spelling of names during that period.

If a child, who was classified as being dyslexic by the teacher, was not significantly worse than the norm-sample in the standardized spelling test, he/she was excluded from the study.

Be prepared to consider misspellings of family names — standardized spelling is a fairly recent phenomenon.

Members of this "paper brigade" risked their lives to smuggle out cultural treasures, including documents that scholars had painstakingly collected to record and standardize Yiddish spelling.

British English retains the -our spelling used in Old French, as in other words like arbour, armour and endeavour (though there was lots of variation until dictionaries helped standardize spellings from the 17th century onwards).

Now, however, every Wednesday through the end of September, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, in London, is staging "Troilus and Cressida," a rueful comic meditation on war's delirium, in Early Modern English, or "Original Pronunciation" — a novel aural simulacrum of Elizabethan delivery as it was before the eighteenth century standardized the spelling and, inevitably, the speaking of the Bard.

These variants standardized the spelling and made the song more militant, replacing the slave scenario with specific references to the conflict or to Northern or Southern pride.

To standardize the spelling system of a written language in no way stops its spoken parent from changing.

But while efforts to reshape and standardize English spelling have been around (almost) as long as English itself, some of the vehement (and dead-serious) arguments made by this year's protesters are almost too delightfully bizarre to be true.