oxford spelling

Example Sentences

• "He was entered at Queen's College, Oxford; but he had not been many months there, when some of his Latin verses fell by accident into the hands of Dr. Lancaster, Dean of Magdalene College.* [note] Pronounced “Maudlin” The Oxford spelling is Magdalen."
• "But the repudiation at Oxford of the Oxford spelling of thirty years ago removes the last prop from the tumbling hyphen, and now there is no reason why any one who writes about bookplates should not follow established literary usage."
• "[I] rode out with Saiyed Hashem to visit the site of ‘a very ancient city’ not far from the qasr, which must have been a village of mud huts built fifty years ago—I know too well the Arab's sense of time and space (in fact there was not a stone to be seen and what m companion described as the ancient city wall is a semi-circular ridge not more than five hundred feet long); but I started to say that the boy who walked behind my thelul, or according to the standard Oxford spelling zelul¹ (my literary friends in America, who have accused me of eccentricity in the transliteration of Arabic words of which I know the pronunciation and, therefore, how they should be written, will not blame me, I hope, for following deferentially the learned Arabists of Oxford)—but what about the boy that was walking behind my zelul?"
• ". . . my Oxford spelling to Webster spelling."
• "The net effect of such attitudes was to require American publishers to have some of their books typeset in a style of British orthography known as "modified Oxford spelling.”"
• "“. . . At that time I was a very good typist, knew Oxford spelling, and could do verbatim dictation.”"