Distinctively British spellings
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- Mainz
- Mitchell, Donald G.
- Mitchill, Samuel L.
- Morris, Gouverneur
- Mytilene, island (also chief city) of Lesbos
- Nuremberg
- Oliphant, Laurence
- Philips, Ambrose, author
- Phillips, Wendell
- Poe, Edgar Allan, poet
- Procter, Adelaide, poet
- Pyrenees
- Read, Thomas B., poet
- Reade, Charles, novelist
- Reed, Thomas B.
- Reid, Thomas
- Reid, Whitelaw
- Rhead, Louis, artist
- Rheims
- Shakspere, [1] William
- Sidney, Sir Philip, author
- Smith, Sydney
- Spencer, Herbert
- Spenser, Edmund, poet
- Sterne, Laurence, author
- Strasburg (French)
- Strassburg (German)
- Thompson, Benjamin
- Thomson, James, poet
- Ward, Mrs. Humphry
- Watt, James, inventor
- Watts, Dr. Isaac
- Würtemberg
DISTINCTIVELY BRITISH SPELLINGS
British spelling is occasionally required, and as dictionaries made in England are not accessible to compositors, special lists of some variable words in frequent use are here appended. (See also three columns in Appendix A. ) A general direction to use
- ↑ "Shakspere is scholarly, as —The New Shakspere Society." (Dr. J. A. H. Murray.) This is the spelling of the Century dictionary, but if the compositor or reader finds Shakespeare or any other form in the copy of an educated writer, that form should be repeated. The preferred adjective suffix is -ian, not -ean (i.e. Shaksperian, not Shaksperean).
