Spelling Facts and Fancies
Vivian Cook

Much of this was incorporated into Vivian Cook, Accomodating Brocoli in the Cemetary, Profile, 2004; Simon & Schuster 2005. For details of English spelling rules etc go to English Spelling Topics

SPELLING HUMOUR
The Cockney alphabet (Mockney)   Spelling jokes  Comic spelling rhymes  More comic spelling rhymes  Speech Reform, not Spelling Reform  Spelling spoofs  Puns in shop names etc

SPELLING MISTAKES
Spelling tests website
Native speakers: English spelling mistakes on the web  Native speaker mistakes  Spelling mistakes by famous writers
L2 users:  Arabic users  Greek users  Chinese users  Spanish users  Japanese users Bengali children  Koreans  Corpus of 1400 mistakes from 7 languages  Engrish.com link
Street mistakes: Temporary signs Painted signs  Printed signs  Odd public signs

STREET SIGNS
Language of the Street Website
City signs: Newcastle  Newcastle streets  Bilingual Newcastle Colchester Malaysia Northumbria Dublin  Bilingual notices and signs

NOVEL SPELLINGS THAT STRETCH THE RULES
Fish and chip shops  pop-groups  Olde Tyme Spelling Dogs' names   Car numbers   horses' names  house-names  K for C spellings  eye-dialect  U spellings  shopsigns  punctuation businesses etc numbers for letters and words  puns in shop names etc  shapes as letters 

APOSTROPHES
the greengrocer's apostrophe  its/it's  missing apostrophes  till, until and 'til  peculiar apostrophes placenames with apostrophes

E-mails, texts and the internet
summary  e-mails  chatrooms  text messages

Other:
historical examples of <ye> for <the> spelling statistics punctuation statistics
Online writings on spelling etc

Formerly at homepage.ntlworld.com/vivian.c, which is defunct