Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
- noun The aspect of language study concerned with letters and their sequences in words.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art or practice of writing words with the proper letters, according to accepted usage; the way in which words are customarily written; spelling: as, the orthography of a word.
- noun In the following passage it is used erroneously, in burlesque:
- noun The branch of language-study which treats of the nature and properties of letters, and of the art of writing words correctly.
- noun In musical notation, the art or practice of representing tones and effects by the proper characters, according to accepted usage.
- noun In draftsmanship, a geometrical representation of an elevation or section of a building; a sectional view of a fortress or the like.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art or practice of writing words with the proper letters, according to standard usage; conventionally correct spelling; also, mode of spelling.
- noun The part of grammar which treats of the letters, and of the art of spelling words correctly.
- noun A drawing in correct projection, especially an elevation or a vertical section.
- noun The method of spelling the words of a particular language; the system of symbols used for writing a language.
- noun The branch of linguistics concerned with how languages are written.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
study ofcorrect spelling according toestablished usage . - noun The
aspect oflanguage study concerned withletters and theirsequences inwords . - noun Spelling; the
method ofrepresenting a language or thesounds of language bywritten symbols . - noun architecture Orthographic
projection ; especially its use to draw anelevation , verticalprojection etc. of abuilding .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols
Etymologies
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Examples
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Surely, even basic orthography is within your grasp? billy
Justin Raimondo vs. Christopher Hitchens on al-Jazeera « Antiwar.com Blog 2008
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And English orthography is hardly beholden to pronunciation (tho it mite be nice if it were).
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And English orthography is hardly beholden to pronunciation (tho it mite be nice if it were).
Inner Spaces III: Can not be split? « Motivated Grammar 2007
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Is there some subtle complication in Hawaiian orthography or dialectology that I'm missing?
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Oh, and just to mess up the Google counts, in Arabic orthography those forms are all indistinguishable from verbal nouns in the accusative...
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Since the vulgar dialects of the people had neither alphabet nor orthography, he chalked the Latin words for "Penance, Solitude, and Silence," on a large flat stone, and wrote them again below in ancient English, hoping, in spite of his unacknowledged yearning for someone to talk to, that the old man would understand and leave him to his lonely Lenten vigil.
A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959
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Master of Arts. According to the easy orthography of that time (if the word orthography may be applied to a practice by virtue of which every man spelled as seemed right in his own eyes), Lyly's name is found in at least six forms: Lilye, Lylie, Lilly, Lyllie, Lyly, and Lylly.
The Bibliotaph and Other People Leon H. Vincent
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[9] Condé, and the writers who have followed him, constantly speak of the Beni-Modhar as Egyptian -- an error owing to the neglect or omission of the point which in Arabic orthography distinguishes _Modhar_ from _Missr_, (Egypt.)
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various
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The Slavonic combination of consonants sl was changed in Greek orthography into stl, sthl, or skl.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Here is Lewis's letter (corrected in orthography).
leaden commented on the word orthography
I stumbled across a video of David Wolman promoting his book Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling at Google (from March 26, 2009): “Righting the Mother Tongue tells the cockamamie story of English spelling. When did ghost acquire its silent 'h'? Will cyberspace kill the one in rhubarb? And was it really rocket scientists who invented spell-check?”
I don’t know if the book is any good, but I think it likely someone here will enjoy the talk.
October 6, 2012