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  2. List of irregularly spelled English names - Wikipedia

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    / t æ m p ə ˈ n iː s / New Zealand: Thames: TEMZ / t ɛ m z / Canada: Thames River: TEMZ / t ɛ m z / Canada: The Pas: dhə-PAH / ð ə ˈ p ɑː / Ireland: Thurles: THUR-less / ˈ θ ɜːr l ɛ s / Australia: Tiaro: TY-roh / ˈ t aɪ r oʊ / Canada: Tsawwasen: tə-WAH-sən / t ə ˈ w ɑː s ən / Variant pronunciations of one place Canada ...

  3. English orthography - Wikipedia

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    Another example includes words like mean / ˈ m iː n / and meant / ˈ m ɛ n t /, where ea is pronounced differently in the two related words. Thus, again, the orthography uses only a single spelling that corresponds to the single morphemic form rather than to the surface phonological form.

  4. Wikipedia:List of spelling variants - Wikipedia

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    Some usages identified as American English are common in British English; e.g., disk for disc. A few listed words are more different words than different spellings: "aeroplane/airplane", "mum/mom". See also: American and British English differences, Wikipedia:List of common misspellings and Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National varieties of English

  5. List of English words that may be spelled with a ligature

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    Note that some words contain an ae which may not be written æ because the etymology is not from the Greek -αι-or Latin -ae-diphthongs. These include: These include: In instances of aer (starting or within a word) when it makes the sound IPA [ɛə]/[eə] ( air ).

  6. Spelling alphabet - Wikipedia

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    A spelling alphabet (also called by various other names) is a set of words used to represent the letters of an alphabet in oral communication, especially over a two-way radio or telephone. The words chosen to represent the letters sound sufficiently different from each other to clearly differentiate them.

  7. Lists of English words - Wikipedia

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    List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom; List of British words not widely used in the United States; List of South African English regionalisms; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: A–L; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z

  8. English terms with diacritical marks - Wikipedia

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    Certain words, like piñata, jalapeño and quinceañera, are usually kept intact. In many instances the ñ is replaced with the plain letter n. In words of German origin (e.g. doppelgänger), the letters with umlauts ä, ö, ü may be written ae, oe, ue. [14] This could be seen in many newspapers during World War II, which printed Fuehrer for ...

  9. Spell checker - Wikipedia

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    The challenge the developers faced was the difficulty in offering useful suggestions for misspelled words. This requires reducing words to a skeletal form and applying pattern-matching algorithms. It might seem logical that where spell-checking dictionaries are concerned, "the bigger, the better," so that correct words are not marked as incorrect.