What is "cacography"

Cacography \Ca*cog`ra*phy\, n. [Gr. kako`s bad + -graphy; cf. F. cacographie.] Incorrect or bad writing or spelling.
--Walpole. [1913 Webster] ||

n. 1 bad spelling or punctuation, especially unintuitive spellings considered as a feature of a whole language or dialect. (from 16th c.) 2 poor or illegible handwriting. (from 17th c.)

n : poor handwriting [syn: scribble, scratch, scrawl]

Cacography is deliberate comic misspelling, a type of humour similar to malapropism.

The term in the sense of "poor spelling, accentuation, and punctuation" is a semantic antonym to orthography, and in the sense of "poor handwriting" it is an etymological antonym to the word calligraphy: cacography is from Greek κακός (kakos "bad") and γραφή (graphe "writing").

A common usage of cacography is to caricature illiterate speakers.