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The American spelling, akin to Greek, is the earliest known spelling in English. [164] It was preferred by Fowler, and is used by many Canadians, where it is the earlier form. [12] Sceptic also pre-dates the European settlement of the US and it follows the French sceptique and Latin scepticus.
This is a list of British English words that have different American English spellings, for example, colour (British English) and color (American English). Word pairs are listed with the British English version first, in italics, followed by the American English version: spelt, spelled; Derived words often, but not always, follow their root.
Good sense; shrewdness: [121] "Hillela had the nous to take up with the General when he was on the up-and-up again" (Nadine Gordimer). Rhymes with "mouse". nought the number zero, chiefly British spelling of naught [122] [123] noughts and crosses game played by marking Xs and Os in a 3x3 grid (US: tic-tac-toe) nowt nothing; not anything.
Tori Spelling dished on what it was like to live in the iconic Spelling family home dubbed “The Manor.” “When I was 12, my parents purchased property that became ‘The Manor,’ and it was ...
The easiest way to keep my house clean would be to outsource it or even spend money on a professional organizer or fancy cleaning gadgets- unfortunately, that is really not an option financially.
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.
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This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations. Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages.