Arbitrary Quote by Mark Twain

“I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I was a boy there…

— Mark Twain

Spelling is improved when reading is done.

— Stephen D. Krashen

“In the first place, there is no point whatever in being able to spell anything. Shakespeare and Milton could not spell; Marie Corelli and…

— Bertrand Russell

I was terrible in English. I couldn't stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or…

— Anonymous

Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries eventually reflect popular choices. And the Internet is allowing more people to influence spelling than ever before.

— David Crystal

Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

— Ben Marcus

Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely…

— David Crystal

I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the…

— Josh Billings

With automatic spell checkers running unleashed over what we compose, our era is that of correctly spelled typos.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.

— Marilyn vos Savant

“More and more rules were added until people tried to standardise spelling in the eighteenth century - by which time the language was already…

— Ben Crystal

I was terrible in English. I couldn't stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or…

— Richard P. Feynman