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  • noun Plural form of orthography.

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Examples

  • Ricardo: English comes in many orthographies and accents, indeed, it is possible to tell from speech which part of London someone comes from.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Declaration of Independence and the Case for Non-Ethnic Secession: 2009

  • The represent the past, present and their link in ways alphabetical orthographies are incapable of.

    Ma Government Seeks World Heritage Status for Traditional Characters Michael Turton 2008

  • I put the blame squarely on dysfunctional English orthographic traditions recognizing, as Tom/汤姆/tāngmǔ says, that there are even less phonetically-helpful orthographies in the world.

    Radovan Karadžić | Linguism 2008

  • I recall Sid Greenbaum once making a study of variants in dictionaries, and finding that a huge 20 per cent or more of entries had alternative orthographies, with capitalization one of the most frequent issues.

    On Christian vs christian DC 2007

  • I was going to say something about the politics of orthography development and use Serbian vs Croatian, the four competing Cornish orthographies, etc but I guess I have a new example.

    languagehat.com: SCRIPT REFORM THROUGH ARSON. 2005

  • Things like encouraging orthographies with slightly different characters, being very specific about ethnoyms and fostering epics was very much their style.

    languagehat.com: DJAGFAR TARIHI. 2005

  • He devoted himself to the reconstruction of lost orthographies and grammars, developed a distinctly Japanese poetics.

    井の中の蛙 » Renaissance Japan » Print 2005

  • What I really wanted to do was build a table of which characters were the most important when taking as many of the orthographies as possible into account.

    languagehat.com: THE MOST COMMON CHARACTERS. 2005

  • He devoted himself to the reconstruction of lost orthographies and grammars, developed a distinctly Japanese poetics.

    Renaissance Japan 2005

  • When I was studying Aymara, we used to talk about the "alphabet wars" for that language and I did a paper at an applied anthropology conference on the competing orthographies by that time mostly minor differences like whether to write aspirates with h or " as in t" or th but this just takes it to a whole new, horrible level.

    languagehat.com: SCRIPT REFORM THROUGH ARSON. 2005

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