Reason Quote by Noah Webster

There iz no alternativ. Every possible reezon that could ever be offered for altering the spelling of wurds, stil exists in full force; and…

— Noah Webster

“Replacing one word for another is ridiculous... The intention of it is where the problem resides, not in the spelling and pronunciation.”

— Percival Everett

“If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know?”

— Steven Wright

“I come now to another part of your letter, which is the orthography, if I may call bad spelling orthography. You spell induce, enduce;…

— Lord Chesterfield

“What is a spell after all but a way of coaxing syllables together so persuasively that some new word is spelled...some imprecision clarified, some…

— Gregory Maguire

In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also…

— Gunter Grass

We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the…

— Chinua Achebe

In the places I go there are things that I see that I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.

— Dr. Seuss

“Bad spelling can be lethal.”

— Terry Pratchett

“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

“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

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