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The following is a handy reference for editors, listing various common spelling differences between national varieties of English. Please note: If you are not familiar with a spelling, please do some research before changing it – it may be your misunderstanding rather than a mistake, especially in the case of American and British English spelling differences.
Do not follow quoted words or fragments with commas inside the quotation marks, except where a longer quotation has been broken up and the comma is part of the full quotation. Correct: "I began to change, opening the way to confidence and courage", said Turner. Correct: "I began to change," said Turner, "opening the way to confidence and courage."
Uses ' s for possessives even for a word/name ending in s; Gives rationales for many practices for which AP simply states a rule; Is strictly alphabetical and thus self-indexed, while AP has separate sections for sports and weather entries, and combines many entries under such terms as "weapons"
Terms likely to go out of date include best known for, holds the record for, etc. [b] For current and future events, use phrases such as as of February 2025 or since the beginning of 2025 to signal the time-dependence of the information; use the template {} (or {}) in conjunction.
A basic spell checker carries out the following processes: It scans the text and extracts the words contained in it. It then compares each word with a known list of correctly spelled words (i.e. a dictionary).
Choice in November is between democracy or something else. To paraphrase a saying about war, you don’t politic in the political system you want, you politic in the political system you have.
Writing a check correctly can be intimidating, especially if you're out of practice -- or never learned. The less you use your checkbook, the more confusing it can be -- especially when it comes to...
A misspelled word can be a series of letters that represents no correctly spelled word of the same language at all (such as "leik" for "like") or a correct spelling of another word (such as writing "here" when one means "hear", or "no" when one means "know").