Sentence examples for the preferred spelling from inspiring English sources
The preferred spelling is "acknowledgment".
The preferred spelling has historically been kneydl, according to transliterated Yiddish orthography decided upon by linguists at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the organization based in Manhattan recognized by many Yiddish speakers as the authority on all things Yiddish.
Becoming more responsive has really helped with this: now that people know we're listening, and have seen us make changes based on reader feedback, we have more credibility when the answer is "no, we can't change the preferred spelling of that word to the variant spelling you've been using for most of your life". We're descriptivists, not jerks.
My real name is Philipp Köhn, but the preferred spelling is Philipp Koehn.
However, when Ukraine became independent, there was a large movement to recognize "Kyiv," (the Ukrainian transliteration) as the preferred spelling, as it symbolized the country's newfound independence.
Carly Slay Jepsen (the preferred spelling) came back in a big way this summer to save pop music from Ed Sheeran.
So a lot of publications defer to another authority: They always go with the dictionary's preferred spelling — the one that's listed first and without any disclaimers like "variant" or "chiefly British". What does that mean for writing theater and center?
For many publishers who need to ensure consistency throughout their works, the dictionary's preferred spelling is the only correct choice.
He logged into Twitter and searched the hashtags #ISIS and #Khilafa, the terrorist group's preferred spelling of caliphate.
There is also the stumbling conversation of the other blind novitiates, but we are all really dependent on the voice of our guide, Romeo Edmead, a vigorous, charming man, completely nonplussed by the tumult we find around us. "Nonplused" (that's our preferred spelling, by the way) means "bewildered" or "dumbfounded".
No "e" in our dictionary's first, preferred spelling of the plural.
