Very early, Americans began trying to discover how a word "ought" to be pronounced by seeing how it was spelled.
很早以前，美国人就开始尝试根据词的拼法去判断它“应该”如何发音。I verIfy the spellIng of a word by lookIng It up In a dIctIonary.
我通过查词典来验证一个词的拼法。At last I found a most efficient way for me: memorizing English words by their stems and affixes.
最后我发现一个有效的方法：通过英语单词的结构和拼法来记忆他们。In Hamlet the same word in the same place in the play is rendered differently in two different manuscripts.
在《哈姆雷特》中，同样位置的同一个词在本剧的两个版本内出现了不同的拼法。Generally speaking, newspapers follow the American way, but conference reports and schoolbooks use the British spelling.
一般来说，报纸采用美式英语的拼法，而会议报道和教科书则采用英式英语的拼法。"Is that the correct spelling? " "I don't know - look it up in a dictionary. "
“那是正确的拼法吗？”我不知道，查一下字典吧。The student checked the spelling of the word in his dictionary.
学生在字典里查阅这个单词的拼法。The early name, Eastre, was eventually changed to its modern spelling, Easter.
而复活节早期的名字Eastre，最后也被改成流传至今的拼法Easter。Both official languages, English and French, use the same spelling of the name Canada.
两种官方语言，英语和法语，都用同样的拼法来说加拿大德国名。