Arbitrary Quote by Mark Twain

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

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.

— David Crystal

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

We should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords.

— John Wesley

Words are our servants, not our masters. For different purposes, we find it convenient to use words in different senses.

— Richard Dawkins

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

I conceive that words are like money, not the worse for being common, but that it is the stamp of custom alone that gives…

— William Hazlitt

Spelling mistakes in a letter is like a bug on a white shirt.

— Faina Ranevskaya

Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

— Frank Herbert

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

The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.

— Eugene H. Peterson