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orthography

[ US /ɔɹˈθɑɡɹəfi/ ]
NOUN
  1. a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols

How To Use orthography In A Sentence

  • The name of the organization created to further Basic, the Orthological Institute, echoes such terms as orthodoxy, orthography, and orthoepy.
  • His remarks on French, focus on syntax and semantics, all but omitting phonology, phonetics and orthography.
  • All the foils were unrelated in meaning, sound, and orthography to the study sets.
  • The orthographies of the world's major languages, however, became standardized in the context of publishing books, using any orthography that people would read.
  • In the commencement, the student ought carefully to reperuse what he has written, correct, in the first instance, every error of orthography and grammar. John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court
  • Latin verb gustare, "to taste;" but Medlar pleaded custom in behalf of C, observing, that, by the Doctor's rule, we ought to change pudding into budding, because it is derived from the French word boudin; and in that case why not retain the original orthography and pronunciation of all the foreign words we have adopted, by which means our language would become a dissonant jargon without standard or propriety? The Adventures of Roderick Random
  • In its orthography, German gives an initial capital letter to its nouns, a practice common in English until the mid eighteenth century.
  • The orthography is doubtful, but there is little question that a kind of bramble-bush is intended. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
  • They had to be transcribed, entailing a whole series of choices about lineation, punctuation, and orthography. Is Rap Poetry?
  • And yet, upon careful examination we find a method, a system, in his orthography, or rather in his cacography.
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