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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of respell.

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Examples

  • He also thought that 'abbreviation' was too long for its meaning, that 'monosyllabic' should have one syllable, 'dyslexic' should be renamed 'O' and 'unspeakable' should be respelt 'unsfzpxkable.'

    Wednesday stuff yendi 2005

  • Favorite passage: "He spent the greater part of his life campaigning to have respelt those words that look as though they are spelt wrongly, but aren't."

    Wednesday stuff yendi 2005

  • The truth is, Shakespeare's writings have been respelt by every generation that has reprinted them, and the modern spelling reformer would leave them at least as near to

    The Booklover and His Books Harry Lyman Koopman 1898

  • Terpsichŏrean Tërpsik - térrorism testósterone téther - no 'a' th - can be voiced or unvoiced, and is here respelt as dh - where voiced: thôugh * dhô

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Terpsichŏrean Tërpsik - térrorism testósterone téther - no 'a' th - can be voiced or unvoiced, and on this page is respelt as dh - wherever voiced: thôugh * dhô

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Terpsichŏrean Tërpsik - térrorism testósterone téther - no 'a' th - can be a simple t sound, as in Thaî below; the fricative th sound can be voiced or unvoiced, and on this page is respelt as dh - wherever voiced: thôugh * dhô

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Terpsichŏrean Tërpsik - térrorism testósterone téther - no 'a' th - can be a simple t sound, as in Thaî below; the fricative th sound can be voiced or unvoiced, and on this page is respelt as dh - wherever voiced: thôugh * dhô

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Terpsichŏrean Tërpsik - térrorism testósterone téther - no 'a' th - can be voiced or unvoiced, and is here respelt as dh - where voiced: thôugh * dhô

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Terpsichŏrean Tërpsik - térrorism testósterone téther - no 'a' th - can be a simple t sound, as in Thaî below; the fricative th sound can be voiced or unvoiced, and on this page is respelt as dh - wherever voiced: thôugh * dhô

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Terpsichŏrean Tërpsik - térrorism testósterone téther - no 'a' th - can be voiced or unvoiced, and is here respelt as dh - where voiced: thôugh * dhô

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

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