orthography

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This orthography is also found in old family letters of the beginning of the present century In giving the early history of Chicago, the Indians say, with great simplicity, "the first white man who settled here was a negro This was Jean Baptiste Point-au-Sable, a native of St. Domingo, who, about the year 1796, found his way to this remote region, and commenced a life among the Indians.

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  1. noun The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
  2. noun The aspect of language study concerned with letters and their sequences in words.
  3. noun A method of representing a language or the sounds of language by written symbols; spelling.

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  • The note in French is somewhat of a curiosity on account of its quaint orthography, which is purposely left uncorrected. —  The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54
  • Non-clicks are to the left; clicks to the right (the orthography is the traditional one for Khoekhoe). —  AnalogSFF,May2008
  • A feature of the orthography is the frequent use of —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Not only the several towns and counties of England have a different way of pronouncing, but even here in London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs; and in a few years, it is probable, will all differ from themselves, as fancy or fashion shall direct; all which, reduced to writing, would entirely confound orthography This much I have thought good to say in respect of that entire revolution in English orthography, which some rash innovators have proposed. —  English Past and Present
  • Mr. Barton had not the gift of perfect accuracy in English orthography and syntax, which was unfortunate, as he was known not to be a Hebrew scholar, and not in the least suspected of being an accomplished Grecian. —  Scenes of Clerical Life
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  1. Early modern English ortographie, artografie; from French orthographie = Spanish ortografīa = Portuguese orthographia = Italian ortografia = German orthographie = Swedish Danish ortografi. orthography, spelling, from Latin orthographia, Middle Latin also orthografia, from Greek ὀρθογραφία, correct writing (also, in L., the elevation or front view of a building), from *ὀρθογράφος (later Late Latin orthographus), writing correctly, an orthographer, from ὀρθός, straight, right, correct, + γράφειν, write.
 

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