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orthography Definition

or·thog·ra·phy (ôr t̸hägrə fē)

noun pl. orthographies -·phies

  1. spelling in accord with accepted usage
  2. any style or method of spelling
  3. spelling as a subject for study
  4. orthographic projection

Etymology: ME ortografye < MFr ortographie < L orthographia < Gr: see ortho- & -graphy

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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

  • language: Choosing an orthography for a patois language, or: how should one spell Pennsylvania German?
  • name: We retained the original orthography for the names, giving the standardized names used for linkage alongside their original form.