orthography
orthography
Definition
or·thog·ra·phy (ôr t̸häg′rə fē)
noun pl. orthographies -·phies
- spelling in accord with accepted usage
- any style or method of spelling
- spelling as a subject for study
- orthographic projection
Etymology: ME ortografye < MFr ortographie < L orthographia < Gr: see ortho- & -graphy
orthography
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- use: There are sample texts using each orthography on the Wa Corpus page.
- have: And the Scots tongue has an orthography of its own, lacking neither " authority nor author.
- standardize: There's an active literary scene, there's been discussions and proposals for a standardized orthography.
Adjective modifier
- Gaelic: Gaelic orthography is the set of spelling conventions used in Gaelic.
- Scots: David has a special interest in the problems of Scots orthography.
- Chinese: They also adopt from the Chinese orthography the use of -x to represent a final glottal stop.
- English: There are historical reasons for the extra-ordinary difficulties of the English orthography.
- German: Implications of the 'no ' vote on the 1998 Reform of German Orthography.
- traditional: There is not doubt that such free writing is inhibited by the irregular spelling of traditional orthography.
Noun used with modifier
- tone: A detailed survey of other experimental work on African tone orthography lays the groundwork for the experiment.
Preposition: of
- language: Children should learn: 1. The distinctive orthography of the language.
- text: Yet the orthography of the manuscript text is far from Pembroke's spelling, and further from her punctuation.
Preposition: for
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