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quotes[0]='<i>"Whether you like it or not, people judge you by the way you spell."<br /><br /></i><p class="author">www.barnesandnoble.com</p>'

quotes[1]='<i>"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."</i><p class="author "</p><p class="author">Rudyard Kipling</p>'

quotes[2]='<i>"Communication is often difficult under the best of circumstances, and poor spelling compounds the problem."</i><p class="author "</p><p class="author">Virginia Ann Davis (participant in a BBC Talking Point reader survey)</p>'

quotes[3]='<i>"Disregard for proper spelling lowers standards. There is a lot to learn in the world, and language should form a solid base for that learning."</i><p class="author "</p><p class="author">Tricia Dee (participant in a BBC Talking Point reader survey)</p>'

quotes[4]='<i>"If somebody can\'t be bothered to spell correctly, can they be bothered to get the information correct? "</i><p class="author"</p><p class="author">T. Paul Russell (participant in a BBC Talking Point reader survey)</p>'

quotes[5]='<i>"In this competitive world, spelling does matter."</i><p class="author "</p><p class="author">M. Graham (participant in a BBC Talking Point reader survey)</p>'

quotes[6]='<i>"I memorise English words by both spelling and pronunciation. If I find a word misspelt, I may think the word is a different word. I believe many English learners have the same way to remember English words as I do."</i><p class="author "</p><p class="author">Iwan Effendi, Indonesia (participant in a BBC Talking Point reader survey)</p>'

quotes[7]='<i>"A reader for whom English is a second language can find a word in a dictionary only if the spelling is standard. It is very insular to think that free expression is more important than adherence to orthographic rules. English is not our private domain, it belongs to the world."</i><p class="author "</p><p class="author">Andy Cook, France (participant in a BBC Talking Point reader survey)</p>'

quotes[8]='<i>"A word that is misspelt stands out from a sentence like a yellow sunflower in a field of red roses."</i><p class="author "</p><p class="author">Naidu Buyyala, USA (participant in a BBC Talking Point reader survey)</p>'

quotes[9]='<i>"The sounds of a language are like the notes in a musical score. Change the notes and you lose the beauty of the original composition."</i><p class="author "</p><p class="author">Marcial Losada, USA (participant in a BBC Talking Point reader survey)</p>'

quotes[10]='<i>"Misspelling casts doubt in the reader\'s mind on the value of the message. The reader equates good English with clear thinking."</i><p class="author "</p><p class="author">Marcial Losada, USA (participant in a BBC Talking Point reader survey)</p>'

quotes[11]='<i>"The sounds of a language are like the notes in a musical score. Change the notes and you lose the beauty of the original composition."</i><p class="author "</p><p class="author">Asad Abidi, USA (participant in a BBC Talking Point reader survey)</p>'

quotes[12]='<i>"Language exists as a means of transferring information, whether it is tax data or a sonnet. It cannot do this job if the communicating parties cannot agree on grammar, syntax or spelling."</i><p class="author "</p><p class="author">Louis Finegan, Ireland (participant in a BBC Talking Point reader survey)</p>'

quotes[13]='<i>"If standardised spellings seem to be too straight-jacketing for creativity, think of what Orwell once said: \'First you learns the rules; then you breaks them\'. So there cannot be any running away from learning the rules for a social and technologically dependent species such as ours."</i><p class="author "</p><p class="author">Vithal C. Nadkarni, India (participant in a BBC Talking Point reader survey)</p>'

quotes[14]='<i>"Incorrect spelling often obscures the meaning of what is being said and even when the meaning is still clear, the impact is reduced because the person reading it is paying more attention to the physical construction of the phrase than the content."</i><p class="author "</p><p class="author">Gordon Mullan, England (participant in a BBC Talking Point reader survey)</p>'
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