[9급 국가직 영어 2008년 19번]

Such variation, however, was common then with the spelling of many words, not just names.

William Shakespeare is rightly regarded as one of the world’s great writers; yet it would seem that he couldn’t spell his own name! ( ㉠ ) Samples of his signature that have survived show his name spelled in several different ways. ( ㉡ ) Not until the eighteenth century when dictionaries came into use was a single spelling for each word accepted as correct. ( ㉢ ) A few words, however, escaped being standardized in this way; ‘instill’ (which can also be spelled ‘instil’) is one of them. ( ㉣ ) When a dictionary gives two different spellings of a word, the one given first is preferred.