spelling variation
Different written form
A spelling variation is an alternate way of writing the same word: gray/grey, donut/doughnut, artifact/artefact.
Such variations often reflect British versus American conventions, though some exist within the same dialect.
A spelling variation differs from a misspelling in that both forms are considered acceptable.
- British EnglishUK's native dialect
- colourVisual wavelength property
- aluminiumLight silvery metallic element
- chequeWritten bank payment order
- clewWound thread mass
theatre · change · defence · shew · connexion · ligature · transliteration · gaol · fjord · phantasy · honour · neighbor · mould · archaic · hyphenation · capitalization · grey · American English
- types of variation
- lexicologysynonyms, antonyms, homonyms, homophones, homographs
- grammardeclension, pronouns, adjectives, conjugation, nouns
- dialect featuresregionalism, localism, colloquialism, vernacular, patois
- dialectsregional dialect, local dialect, patois, vernaculars, vernacular
- Tudor Englishthee, thou, thy, thine, ye
intentionality
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Printing mistake
misspelling · spelling error · spelling mistake · typographical error