"Misspelling" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... given, as nearly as possible, in the original dialect; and if the spelling seems sometimes inconsistent, or the misspelling insufficient, it is because I could get no nearer. I wished to avoid what seems to me the only error of Lowell's "Biglow Papers" in respect to dialect, the occasional use of an extreme misspelling, which merely confuses the eye, without taking us any closer ...
— Army Life in a Black Regiment • Thomas Wentworth Higginson
... non merentes might be supposed to refer to the parents' not esteeming themselves worthy to be left in possession of such a treasure; but the probability is that merentes is only a misspelling of maerentes for otherwise immerentes would have been the ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Number 9, July, 1858 • Various |
