For example, you might hear a student say to her friend that her spelling test was "as easy as falling off a log."

VOA: special.2009.06.07

Well, here Frost seems to be spelling things out, making a declaration, making a statement, saying what the fact is, and seeming to celebrate the literal: "the fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows."

这儿弗罗斯特好像要详细地说明，来宣布一个声明，说着事实是什么，似乎要庆祝原有的意味：,事实是劳动者知道的最美丽的梦“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

All day Miss Sullivan kept touching Helen's hand, spelling words that gave Helen a language.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

It was a short way of writing a different spelling of the words all correct. Some foreign-born people wrote all correct as o-l-l k-o-r-r-e-c-t, and used the letters O.K.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

The orthography is the written system and spelling of a language.

VOA: special.2011.04.13