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Definition of Orthographies
1. orthography [n] - See also: orthography
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orthographies
Literary usage of Orthographies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Visible Speech: The Science ... of Universal Alphabetics; Or Self by Alexander Melville Bell (1867)
"The following Table exhibits the English Sounds in connection with their various '
orthographies.' The pronunciations indicated exemplify the varieties of ..."
2. Standard Alphabet for Reducing Unwritten Languages and Foreign Graphic by Richard Lepsius (1855)
"It is scarcely necessary to state that we do not here advocate any change in the
orthographies of European languages. Isolated attempts to alter established ..."
3. On Early English Pronunciation, with Especial Reference to Shakespeare and by Alexander John Ellis, Francis James Child, William Salesbury, Alexander Barclay, Johann Andreas Schmeller, Johan Winkler (1875)
"Hence I annex the same passage in four different practical orthographies of the
xvii th and xix th centuries. ..."
4. The American Language: An Inquiry Into the Development of English in the by Henry Louis Mencken (1921)
"AMERICAN SPELLING The Two orthographies The chief changes made in the standard
English spelling in the United States may he classified as follows: l. ..."
5. On Early English Pronunciation, with Especial Reference to Shakspere and by Alexander John Ellis (1871)
"In Icelandic they are kept distinct by the different orthographies « = (»),
S = (ce), 546, 648. Compare also the mutation or umlaut, (o . . i=sh, e, i), ..."
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