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• Nanny Ogg knew how to start spelling 'banana', but didn't know how you stopped.

  Terry Pratchett

  Nannies, Bananas, Know How

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• Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which is memorization of spelling patterns. In doing so, they ensure that children will neither be able to read nor calculate.

  Greg Perry

  Education, Children, Teaching

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• Teacher: "If your daughter knew her spelling words as well as her Bible stories she'd get into Harvard." Me: "I'll settle for Heaven."

  Mark Hart

  Daughter, Teacher, Heaven

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• Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A., a master's is the new bachelor's, a B.A. is the new high school diploma, and a high school diploma is the new smiley-face sticker on your first-grade spelling test.

  Megan McCafferty

  School, Firsts, Diploma

  Megan McCafferty (2007). “Fourth Comings: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.172, Broadway Books

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• Although my spelling is still sometimes poor, I have managed to overcome the worst of my difficulties through training myself to concentrate.

  Richard Branson

  Challenges, Training, Overcoming

  Richard Branson (2005). “Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography”, Virgin Pub

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• Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of transcendent achievement. Few marks are made in the world's history by eight-hour-day men.... Sir Joshua Reynolds had but one maxim for success: Work, work, work. Is not rigid and continuous training necessary for the making of strong athletes? Hard work is not fatal to real success. Vouloir c'est pouvoir.

  B. C. Forbes

  Strong, Real, Work

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• Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backward.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Life, Humor

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• I am now officially ordained. Yep, that's right - Reverend Tori Spelling!

  Tori Spelling

  Reverends

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• I am not afraid of death threats, but I am appalled that so many people are capable of so much wrong spelling and fractured grammar!

  Miriam

  People, Grammar, Threat

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• Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Reading, Writing, Vocabulary

  Stephen D. Krashen (2004). “The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research”, Libraries Unltd Incorporated

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• With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.

  Mark Haddon

  Zero, Math, Half

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• I should have caught the mistake on that spelling bee card. But as Mark Twain once said, `You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word'.

  Dan Quayle

  Mistake, Men, Should Have

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• God is so clear in spelling out His attributes in scripture in order that others would know what He is really like.

  Francis Chan

  Order, Scripture, Attributes

  Source: garyboalnireland.blogspot.com

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• There iz no alternativ. Every possible reezon that could ever be offered for altering the spelling of wurds, stil exists in full force; and if a gradual reform should not be made in our language, it wil proov that we are less under the influence of reezon than our ancestors.

  Noah Webster

  Reform, Language, Influence

  Noah Webster (1977). “A collection of essays and fugitiv writings 1790”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• That's good. And speaking of spelling, tell me -- do you wrap your head in a towel after you shower?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Towels, Showers, Wraps

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• Because of the oil-and-water relationship governments have cultivated between ethics and political economy, speaking in plain terms - spelling it out as it is - as become foreign to the public. So here goes: When government sports a surplus, this implies that the political pickpockets have stolen more funds than they can possibly dream of spending. The property is not theirs to keep! Conversely, when deficits are reported, this means that the kleptomaniacs have not been able to steal sufficient funds to cover their profligacy.

  Ilana Mercer

  Sports, Dream, Mean

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• As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that it is possible to sit in a crowded railway carriage laboriously spelling out quite long words in full, and using an enormous amount of punctuation, without anyone being aware of how outrageously subversive I am being.

  Lynne Truss

  Long, Messages, Texting

  "The joy of text" by Will Self, Lynne Truss, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to such arcane spellings as 'lede.' Where they lede, do not follow.

  William Safire

  Taken, Jargon, Columnists

  "How to Read a Column" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. January 24, 2005.

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• Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization...I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.

  Seymour Papert

  Jobs, Children, Teaching

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• Jesus is God spelling Himself out in language that men can understand.

  S. D Gordon

  Jesus, Men, Christian Inspirational

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• Sure, retarded jokes write themselves. But the spelling is always way off.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Writing, Way, Retarded

  Twitter post from Oct 04, 2010

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• Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it's done.

  John Mayer

  Heart, Done, Want

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Some people take the spelling bee very seriously. These people are called "parents of children in the spelling bee." They're trying to make up for their own childhood of crushed dreams and misspelled words.

  Craig Ferguson

  Dream, Children, People

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• There is a different spelling between "rights" and "rites" - in other words, civic legislators and ecclesiastical councils have different responsibilities.

  Otis Moss III

  Responsibility, Rights, Different

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• There is an old Italian proverb about the nature of translation: "Traddutore, traditore!" This means simply, "Translators-traitors!" Of course, as you can see, something is lost in the translation of this pithy expression: there is great similarity in both the spelling and the pronunciation of the original saying, but these get diluted once they are put in English dress. Even the translation of this proverb illustrates its truth!

  Daniel Wallace

  Mean, Biblical, Italian

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