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Show 4 SPELLING." j Did any on ever ry a "derivation bee f" J Ths difficulty, no doubt, would be very often ta deciding what waa th right answer. For Instance, what Is th. -derivation of the word ''spelling" itself t At one time Prof. Skeat found it origin pretty confidently in the Anglo-Saxon ".pel." meaning discourse or story, and th..v.rb "spellian." to decl.ro. relate, tell i which . appeara la "spell." a charm, aad ta "gospel"). To spall, then, would be to tell th. letter, on. after another, though Skeat admitted that acre might hav. been eome confusion with "spell." a .lip of wood, .inc. such a alip waa used la our old-time old-time schools to point to the letters of a word, on after another, in apelliog them out. Later, ha has become more lenient toward th view that thi wooden '".poll" may be ths real origin of ".pelltng." "apell-lan" "apell-lan" being; Irrelevant London Chronicle. |