spell n.
Syn. incantation.
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spelling flame n. //
[Usenet] A posting ostentatiously correcting a previous
article's spelling as a way of casting scorn on the point the
article was trying to make, instead of actually responding to
that point (compare dictionary
flame). Of course, people who are more than usually
slovenly spellers are prone to think any correction is a
spelling flame. It's an amusing comment on human nature that
spelling flames themselves often contain spelling errors.