This is of no consequence.

What do you want to know the meaning of a word for?
Words were made to be spelled, and men were probably created that they might spell them.

Hence the necessity for sending a pupil through the spelling-book five times before you allow him to begin to read, or indeed to do anything else.

Hence the necessity for those long spelling-classes at the close of each forenoon and afternoon session of the school, to stand at the head of which is the cherished ambition of every scholar.

Hence, too, the necessity for devoting the whole of the afternoon session of each Friday to a "spelling-match." In fact, spelling is the "national game" in Hoopole County.