![]() A racquet is always a piece of sports equipment, whereas a racket can (and always should, IMO) be used to denote an undesirable or alarming noise. Racket and racquet are distinct things and shouldn’t be considered as alternates of the same thing. Is “sherbert” (#35)–a misspelling caused by a mispronunciation–seriously accepted as an alternate spelling by some authorities? Ugh. Want to improve your English in five minutes a day? Get a subscription and start receiving our writing tips and exercises daily! Keep learning! Browse the General category, check our popular posts, or choose a related post below:ġ9 Responses to “50 Words with Alternative Spellings” (But it’s a stick and tricky matter, so check out the comments for input from site visitors as well.) ![]() See this discussion on that topic with a list of categories of spelling differences. This list omits spelling variations that are primarily distinct in usage in American English versus British English (though some, such as gray/ grey and specter/ spectre, are also variations divided by an ocean). ![]() Savannah is spelled as such only as the name of the city in Georgia or the name of a hybrid of the serval, an African cat, and the domestic cat otherwise, it’s spelled savanna. Mic and mike are both acceptable as short versions of microphone.ĥ0. Lasagne is an alternate spelling for the pasta usually referred to as lasagna the latter spelling predominates for the name of the baked dish.Ĥ9. Bologna is the name of the meat product baloney is a quaint slang synonym for nonsense.Ĥ8. pixilated / pixillated (distinct from pixelated)ĭiscussion of distinctions in alternative spellings of some other words follows:Ĥ7. ![]() What is one to do when one finds a choice of spellings in the dictionary? Most dictionaries specify the preferred variant when two or more spellings of a word are listed, but others aren’t so clear.Īccording to Merriam-Webster’s website, the former spelling is more common than the latter for the following words and is the preferred alternative:ģ0. 50 Words with Alternative Spellings By Mark Nichol
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