Spelling
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Spelling is a set of conventions for written language regarding how graphemes should correspond to the sounds of spoken language. Spelling is one of the elements of orthography, and is a subject of li
A misspelling of the word "purchased" on a service station sign
Writing
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Writing is the act of creating a persistent, usually visual representation of language on a surface. As a structured system of communication, writing is also known as written language. Historically, w
Spelling
…Spelling is a set of conventions for written language regarding how graphemes should correspond to the sounds of spoken language. Spelling is one of the elements of orthography, and is a subject of linguistic…
The Rosetta Stone (196 BC) bears writing in three different scripts. Hieroglyphs (top) and Demotic (middle) record the same text in the Egyptian language, while an equivalent passage in Greek uses the Greek alphabet (bottom). These correspondences were key to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs in the early 19th century.
Bronze tympanum featuring the personification of Writing – Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.
A clay tablet with cuneiform writing
Globular envelope with a cluster of accountancy tokens, Uruk period, from Susa – Louvre Museum