Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A method of representing each of the sounds of speech by a distinct printed character or letter; phonetic printing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A method of phonetic printing of the English language, as devised by Mr. Pitman, in which nearly all the ordinary letters and many new forms are employed in order to indicate each elementary sound by a separate character.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated A
method ofphonetic printing of theEnglish language , in which nearly all the ordinaryletters and many new forms are employed in order to indicate eachelementary sound by a separatecharacter .
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It is true that phonotypy would enable the child the more easily to master the art of spelling; but whether words meaning the same thing would be spelled alike by all writers is very questionable, as the most common words are frequently mispronounced; as, _sech_ for _such_, _gud_ for
The Importance of the Proof-reader A Paper read before the Club of Odd Volumes, in Boston, by John Wilson John Wilson
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Six syllables out of seven are thus written as in full phonotypy.
Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays 1861
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