Quotes

Quotes about Spelling

Languages never stand still. Modern spelling crystallises lost pronunciations: the visual never quite catches up with the aural.

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.

Christian Nevell Mistinguett

I have a spelling checkerIt came with my PC;It plainly marks four my revueMistakes I cannot sea.I've run this poem threw it,I'm sure your pleased too no,Its letter perfect in it's weigh,My checker tolled me sew.

Janet Minor

The true function of art is to...edit nature and so make it coherent and lovely. The artist is a sort of impassioned proofreader, blue-penciling the bad spelling of God.

H.l. Mencken