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Noun, : Missionaries provided the first orthography for the language. From Dictionary.com.
Here is Lewis's letter (corrected in orthography). From Wordnik.com. [Life Among The Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims] Reference
Surely, even basic orthography is within your grasp? billy. From Wordnik.com. [Justin Raimondo vs. Christopher Hitchens on al-Jazeera « Antiwar.com Blog] Reference
A proposed correction to an inconsistency in English orthography. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Haskell] Reference
Is there some subtle complication in Hawaiian orthography or dialectology that I'm missing?. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: BRINGING BACK HAWAIIAN.] Reference
And English orthography is hardly beholden to pronunciation (tho it mite be nice if it were). From Wordnik.com. [2007 October « Motivated Grammar] Reference
The Slavonic combination of consonants sl was changed in Greek orthography into stl, sthl, or skl. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
Ch has been overworked in English orthography, partly because it is from so many different sources. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4] Reference
This much I have thought good to say in respect of that entire revolution in English orthography, which some rash innovators have proposed. From Wordnik.com. [English Past and Present] Reference
A feature of the orthography is the frequent use of. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
I preserve Matthew's own orthography, which is the most eccentric it was ever my lot to contemplate. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of Prey] Reference
The old orthography, which is retained here for its literary interest, cannot obscure the tragic power of the ballad. From Wordnik.com. [Ballad Book] Reference
The note in French is somewhat of a curiosity on account of its quaint orthography, which is purposely left uncorrected. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54]
Even so, Borrow's personal vitality triumphs, as it does over his many mistakes, such as Lledach for Clydach, in Welsh orthography. From Wordnik.com. [George Borrow The Man and His Books] Reference
The facetiousness of the orthography was a parody of English spelling caprices, smartly perceived by the probably juvenile inscriber. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4] Reference
And if there is much in orthography which is unsettled now, how much more would be unsettled then. From Wordnik.com. [English Past and Present] Reference
The orthography of the original text has been preserved. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
In the same way an unfortunate orthography in the case of. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
Sussex men are curiously intolerant of the phonetics of orthography. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
Is one that has spelled over a great many books, and his observation is the orthography. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
The orthography of this much-used epithet, which is not given, we believe, in any English or. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
The proper orthography of the name is "Gramont," and the family probably originally came from Spain. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
A second scribe has occasionally corrected some mistakes of orthography made by the original copyist. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
On one of the pew doors is the following curious specimen of church-yard poetry, and mortuary orthography. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
Between the possession of genius, and a knowledge of orthography, there is, I admit, no necessary connexion. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
Portingale, to retain it literatim: in either case I have reduced to uniformity the orthography of the proper names. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series] Reference
Elizabethan times onwards, have been critical of traditional English orthography and have made proposals for improving it. From Wordnik.com. [Magazine, or Animadversions on the English Spelling (1703)] Reference
Of places and words which may present some difficulty as regards origin and meaning on account of their ancient orthography. From Wordnik.com. [La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier] Reference
It was remarkable chiefly for stupidity, looseness of grammar, and worse orthography, and died before it was able to go alone. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
There will be found in it many errors, and some antiquities of orthography, which it has not been deemed advisable to correct. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782] Reference
Every printing establishment of any note has its methods and customs as regards orthography, the use of capitals and of punctuation. From Wordnik.com. [Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)] Reference
The labour of reducing to modern spelling several ballads from the seventeenth-century orthography of the Percy Folio is compensated. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series] Reference
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