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To aid in the discussion at Wiktionary talk:Alternative spellings, here is a sample of articles using any of these headings (standard and nonstandard): Alternative spellings, Alternate forms, Roman spelling, Alternative forms, Devanagari spelling, Cyrillic spelling, Forms and variants, Urdu spelling, Latin/Roman spelling, Alternative Spelling, Variants, Alternate spellings, Alternate spelling, Older forms, Other Forms, Devanāgarī spelling, Alternative spelling, Alternative Spellings.

The sample was taken from WiktionaryDev, which has been randomly importing one article from Wiktionary per hour for a couple of months. There are less than 2,000 articles so far and each one with one of the above headings is included below.

I've (partially) analysed some of them but I'm running out of time.

  1. کرنا → करना (different script)
  2. چمکنا → चमकना (different script)
  3. چابی → चाबी (different script), چابھی
  4. šokk → shokk
  5. τσούχτρα → τσούκτρα
  6. a → á (Spanish obsolete)
  7. aardvark → aard-vark (compounding variant)
  8. assegai → assagai, assagaie, assagay, assegay, azagaia, hassagay, hassaguay, zagaie, zagaye (most of them obsolete)
  9. Basic → BASIC (capitalization)
  10. BASIC → Basic (capitalization)
  11. blimey → blimey O'Reilly, blimey O'Riley, cor blimey, gawd blimey, gorblimey (variants maybe but not alternative spellings)
  12. Bo → Beau (Dutch given name), Bosse (Swedish hypocoristic form??)
  13. bo → boh (Italian interjection)
  14. bushbaby → bush baby (compounding variant)
  15. café → café (accentuation)
  16. cafe → cafe (accentuation)
  17. cloche → clutch, cloch (Spanish)
  18. Cuna → Kuna
  19. лифт → lift (different script)
  20. презиме → prezime (different script)
  21. див → div (different script)
  22. дивљи → divlji (different script)
  23. џиновски → džinovski (different script)
  24. dogend → dog-end, dog end (compounding variants)
  25. сено → seno (different script)
  26. façade → facade (accentuation)
  27. facade → façade (accentuation)
  28. gannai → kunnai (minority language)
  29. Großbritannien → Grossbritannien (different national orthography)
  30. have another think coming → have another thing coming
  31. hiccup → hiccough
  32. homma → homa (minority language)
  33. horsefly → horse fly (compounding variant)
  34. I haven't the foggiest → I haven't the foggiest idea, I haven't the foggiest notion (variants of idiomatic phrases yes but not alternative spellings)
  35. تھوک → थूक (different script)
  36. Ian → Iain
  37. id → ide (fish), id. (abbreviation)
  38. Kefalovryssion → Kefalovrysi, Kefalovryssi, Kefalovrisi, Kefalovrissi (all marked as alternate), Kefalovrysion, Kefalovrision, Kefalovrission (all marked as older forms)
  39. koala → coala (Spanish)
  40. kreativnost → креативност (different script)
  41. kuna → guna (minority language)
  42. Kuna → Cuna
  43. la → lade (Swedish, seems to be alternate past tense form rather than alternative spelling)
  44. learnt → learned
  45. miâ-jī → miâ-lī
  46. milliwatt → milli-watt (compounding variant)
  47. Moctezuma → Montenchuma, Muteçuma, Moteçuma, Montezúma, Moctezoma, Motecuzoma, Motecuhzoma, Moctezuma, Moteuczoma, Montezuma (different forms of foreign proper name used over varying periods of time)
  48. more → море (different script)
  49. naïve → naif (different pronunciation too?), naive (accentuation)
  50. naive → naif, naïf, naïve (note more variants listed than for previous entry!)
  51. nooblet → n00blet, newblet, nublet
  52. Nova Jorca → Nova York
  53. キリン → 麒麟 (different script)
  54. カエサル → シーザー (different pronunciation too)
  55. one → оне (different script)
  56. भूगोल → بھوگول (different script)
  57. धूना → دھونا (different script)
  58. otorhinolaryngology → otolaryngology
  59. ころ → ごろ (variant pronunciation too)
  60. palaeontography → paleontography
  61. panentheist → pan-en-theist, Panentheist, PanenTheist, Pan-en-theist, Pan-en-Theist (both hyphenation and capitalization vary)
  62. philibeg → filibeg
  63. prefect → præfect (æ → ae &rarr& e development)
  64. prosty → prostie
  65. Pushto → Pashto, Pashtu, Poshto, Pushtu (romanization of script vs romanization of various regional pronunciations?)
  66. résumé → resume, resumé (accentuation)
  67. Renée → Renee
  68. scorpius → scorpio, scorpios
  69. shmuck → schmuck (English vs German spelling of ʃ sound)
  70. signaler → signaller (l vs ll in US vs UK)
  71. ἰδέα → εἰδέα, ἰδέη
  72. Ἰούδας → Ἰουδά
  73. Ἰερεμίας → Ἱερεμίας
  74. stumbling block → stumbing-block (compounding variants)
  75. sulfuric acid → sulphuric acid (from US vs UK variants of sulfur/sulphur)
  76. tessellate → tesselate (l vs ll in US vs UK)
  77. tire-pressure → tyre-pressure (from US+Canada vs UK variants of tire/tyre)
  78. touch-tone → touchtone (compounding variants)
  79. 違い → 違う (Related terms seems more appropriate)
  80. whack-a-mole → Whac-A-Mole, whac-a-mole
  81. Yana → Яна (I didn't think Bulgarian was ever written in Latin script!)
  82. you → ya, yah, yer, -cha, -ja, u, yoo, eu, iow, yew, yewe, yo, yoow, youe, yow, yowe, yu, yw, ȝewe, ȝhow, ȝhu, ȝo, ȝou, ȝoue, ȝow, ȝowe
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