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Slim (Arabic: سليم, romanized: Slīm), is an Arabic name which can be either a given name or a surname. It is a variant of Salim or Selim. It is also an English-language surname. Notable people with the given name or surname include: Slim Amamou (born 1977), Tunisian government minister; Slim Belkhodja (born 1962), Tunisian chess Grandmaster
Slim Thug, American rapper Stayve Jerome Thomas (born 1980) Slim Whitman, stage name of American country and western music singer, songwriter and musician Ottis Whitman Jr. (1923–2013) Fatboy Slim, stage name of Norman Cook (born 1963), English musician; Magic Slim, American blues singer and guitarist Morris Holt (1937–2013)
Spelling is a set of conventions for written language regarding how graphemes should correspond to the sounds of spoken language. [1] Spelling is one of the elements of orthography, and highly standardized spelling is a prescriptive element. Spellings originated as transcriptions of the sounds of speech according to the alphabetic principle.
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programme – program: In British English, the spelling program can be used for computer program. In all other cases, programme is invariably used. storey – story: a story is a tale; outside of the US, upper floors of buildings are spelt storey. [14] theatre – theater: Many uses of either spelling can be found in American English.
Some usages identified as American English are common in British English; e.g., disk for disc. A few listed words are more different words than different spellings: "aeroplane/airplane", "mum/mom". See also: American and British English differences, Wikipedia:List of common misspellings and Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National varieties of English
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When Lushootseed names were integrated into English, they were often recorded and pronounced very differently. An example of this is Chief Seattle. The name Seattle is an anglicisation of the modern Duwamish conventional spelling Si'ahl, equivalent to the modern Lushootseed spelling siʔaɫ Salishan pronunciation: [ˈsiʔaːɬ].