Domande riguardo a frasi esempio con, spiegazione d'utilizzo di "Spelt"s

A: It means she saw other spellings. "I've seen it" means she witnessed other spellings. She could have met people with the name Durrham, or saw other people spell it, or saw the name Durrham somewhere.

A: “Spelt the death” (or spelled the death) usually means, “meant the end of” or “signaled the end of”, so “___ spelt the death of formal speech” means that “____” shows the end of formal speech.

Sort of like ____ killed the use of formal speech, and ended it.

A: In a nutshell, "spelled" is American/Canadian English and both "spelt" and "spelled" can be written in UK/Australian/New Zealand/Irish/South African English etc.

A: Speak out loud.

"to spell something out" means you will explain something in detail. This phrase means you provide a simple and understandable explanation. It can also mean that you are very explicit and provide even the obvious details.

"Let me spell it out for you: you are not welcome here."

" This marriage is over, do I have to spell it out?"

"I'm sorry but I can't spell it out for you, because the whole issue is not that simple."

I don't know for sure, but I think this dates back to early radio communication, when radio operators would spell out important words, letter by letter, to make sure that the other person understood the message.

In your example, the boy is explaining his plan in detail to the vampire.

A: I love this question! It’s one of those inexplicable brain ache things with English that has no reason (that I’m aware of!) 😂

I guess it’s because the pronunciation changes from ‘essens’ to ‘essenshally’ (written like they sound)

A: "spelt" is UK English and "spelled" is US English