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- noun Plural form of
orthography .
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Examples
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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Things like encouraging orthographies with slightly different characters, being very specific about ethnoyms and fostering epics was very much their style.
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He devoted himself to the reconstruction of lost orthographies and grammars, developed a distinctly Japanese poetics.
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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.
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He devoted himself to the reconstruction of lost orthographies and grammars, developed a distinctly Japanese poetics.
Renaissance Japan 2005
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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.
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