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- adjective Not
phonetic .
Etymologies
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non- + phonetic
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Examples
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And I was born among a people who speak English, a notoriously nonphonetic tongue.
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The reverse skill, of course, is spelling, only and needlessly tricky because we choose to write English in nonphonetic code.
High School Confidential Jeremy Iversen 2006
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Lillian and Anna had decided to try teaching Mom a nonphonetic, ideographic, alphabet, and in the morning they co-opted Sonny to help.
Naudsonce H. Beam Piper 1934
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