Quote by Samuel Johnson

“APOCOPE  (APO'COPE)   n.s.[  figure in grammar,when the last letter or syllable of a word is taken away; as, ingeni for ingenii.”

— Samuel Johnson

“Although vowels are indicated in the cuneiform syllabaries, they are lacking from the alphabetic scripts of the Northwest and South.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“Hé woffode ðá swá lange mid wordum dyslíce, óð ðæt hé feóll geswógen.”

— Aelfric

“Værsåartig, her var nu litt om bær, vore bærsorter...”

— Knut Hamsun

“[H]e emits a long sequence of hard consonants that, even though Ove does not understand them, he suspects to be various combinations of four-letter…

— Fredrik Backman

“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

“Byen var et uhyre, som uavbrutt fødte, oppløste og slukte nye mennesker.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

“A word's meaning depends not so much on its linguistic past but rather on the place the word occupies in relation to the general…

— Anonymous

“Akkadian loanwords are completely assimilated to Aramaic, both phonologically and morphologically.”

— Roger D. Woodard

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what…

— Albert Einstein

“Hroþwulf ond Hroðgar heoldon lengest sibbe ætsomne suhtorfædran, siþþan hy forwræcon wicinga cynn ond Ingeldes ord forbigdan, forheowan æt Heorote Heaðobeardna þrym.”

— Widsith