[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question on Spelling
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:59:39 -0700 (PDT)
Well, "s" instead of "z" in words is an English
vis-a-vis American spelling, though why Faulkner would
choose to use tht, I don't know. Maybe it's Southern,
or he read a lot whenyoung and picked it up. smile For
some reason I don't understand, I tend to spell gray
with an "e" instead of an "a." Maybe I saw it too much
on mustard. smile. Or in the books I read as a child
and youngster, most of which used English spelling for
grey. Also for sonme other words I can't think of now,
I use, or used to use, "z" instead of "s, and vice
versa.
When I find spellings like that in books, like the o u
r suffixes instead or plan o r, or variant spellings
that the author uses, I put in the long synopsis so
people will know that's the way the author spelled the
word. In one book I did recently there was only one
word that was weird, but it was the author's choice,
and not a mistake, so I didn't change it.
Cindy
--- Amy Goldring Tajalli
<agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Faulkner, like many authors, invents words and also
> has very creative spelling which may or may not be
> caught by his publishers and the scanners or
> validaters. Even when caught, how does one decide on
> what to correct or not to correct. So far my
> choices have been hit or miss but as a rule I try to
> stick with his spelling even when it is just
> misspelling - he often uses s instead of z in
> words like realize and I try to leave them as I
> think he wrote them even if he had not meant to
> misspell the words. I am a devout believer in the
> idea that an author's intentions are irrelevant when
> dealing with what s/he actually wrote even if we
> know them. I have, however, heard a lot of the
> opposing point of view to admit that correcting
> misspellings is not altogether wrong.
>
> Having read so many misspelled papers by freshman
> composition students that I am not always sure of
> correct spelling, I often look up words but if you
> don't know the correct spelling looking up a word in
> a dictionary is not particularly easy. Thank heavens
> for Spell Checks but they, too, are not always
> reliable. I would welcome more comments on the
> subject.
>
> Amy
> omsm
>
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