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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.
Lists of dictionaries cover general and specialized dictionaries, collections of words in one or more specific languages, and collections of terms in specialist fields. They are organized by language, specialty and other properties.
A defining vocabulary is a list of words used by lexicographers to write dictionary definitions. The underlying principle goes back to Samuel Johnson's notion that words should be defined using 'terms less abstruse than that which is to be explained', [1] and a defining vocabulary provides the lexicographer with a restricted list of high-frequency words which can be used for producing simple ...
List, list article See Wikipedia:Lists. Listcruft See § Cruft. Listify To delete a category and turn the contents into a list. Sometimes used in § CFD discussions as shorthand for "this group of articles would be better if presented as a list, rather than as a category". Lk Landmarks: Major landmarks; also used as an abbreviation for "link ...
This list includes only homographs that are written precisely the same in English and Spanish: They have the same spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word dividers, etc. It excludes proper nouns and words that have different diacritics (e.g., invasion/invasión, pâté/paté).
The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (abbreviated CALD) is a British dictionary of the English language. It was first published in 1995 under the title Cambridge International Dictionary of English by the Cambridge University Press. The dictionary has over 140,000 words, phrases, and meanings. It is suitable for learners at CEF levels B2 ...
The dictionaries do list the same meaning for both spellings. That's what dictionaries do. Darkfrog24 05:51, 8 March 2013 (UTC) A dictionary is a tertiary source, but you are using them in a manner that is not supported by what they state. You are using them to simply illustrate that the word is in the dictionary. That makes its use primary.
Meaning "to turn sharply; a sharp turn", the preferred spelling differs. Meaning "a great number" is usually slew in all regions. [174] smoulder: smolder: Both spellings go back to the 16th century, and have existed since Middle English. [141] [175] storey, storeys: story, stories: Level of a building.