Crossword clues for orthography
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Orthography \Or*thog"ra*phy\, n. [OE. ortographie, OF. orthographie, L. orthographia, Gr. ?, fr. ? writing correctly; 'orqo`s right + gra`fein to write. See Ortho-, and Graphic.]
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The art or practice of writing words with the proper letters, according to standard usage; conventionally correct spelling; also, mode of spelling; as, his orthography is vicious.
When spelling no longer follows the pronunciation, but is hardened into orthography.
--Earle. The part of grammar which treats of the letters, and of the art of spelling words correctly.
A drawing in correct projection, especially an elevation or a vertical section.
The method of spelling the words of a particular language; the system of symbols used for writing a language.
The branch of linguistics concerned with how languages are written.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The study of correct spelling according to established usage. 2 The aspect of language study concerned with letters and their sequences in words. 3 Spelling; the method of representing a language or the sounds of language by written symbols. 4 (context architecture English) Orthographic projection; especially its use to draw an elevation, vertical projection etc. of a building.
WordNet
n. a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols [syn: writing system]
Wikipedia
An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language. It includes rules of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation. Orthography is distinct from grammar, which concerns the structure of languages and not their writing.
Most significant languages in the modern era are written down, and for most such languages a standard orthography has been developed, often based on a standard variety of the language, and thus exhibiting less dialect variation than the spoken language. Sometimes there may be variation in a language's orthography, as between American and British spelling in the case of English orthography. In some cases orthography is regulated by bodies such as language academies, although for many languages (including English) there are no such authorities, and orthography develops in a more organic way.
Orthography is distinct from typography, which is concerned with principles of typesetting.
Usage examples of "orthography".
He answered well enough, but on my dictating to him in Italian and French I found he had not the remotest ideas on orthography.
The plan of the volume does not demand an elaborate examination into the state of our language when Chaucer wrote, or the nice questions of grammatical and metrical structure which conspire with the obsolete orthography to make his poems a sealed book for the masses.
Marcian Library at Venice, I am not surprised to learn from this indignant document that it was printed 'under the care of a young Swiss, who had the talent to commit a hundred faults of orthography.
Strip it of these embarrassments, vest it in the Roman type which we have adopted instead of our English black letter, reform its uncouth orthography, and assimilate its pronunciation, as much as may be, to the present English, just as we do in reading Piers Plowman or Chaucer, and with the cotemporary vocabulary for the few lost words, we understand it as we do them.
Crofts (who sent you, I believe, as well as myself, a copy of his treatise on the English and German languages, as preliminary to an Etymological dictionary he meditated) I went into explanations with him of an easy process for simplifying the study of the Anglo-Saxon, and lessening the terrors, and difficulties presented by it's rude Alphabet, and unformed orthography.
Orthography, etymology, syntax, and prosody, biography, astronomy, geography, and general cosmography, the sciences of compound proportion, algebra, land-surveying and levelling, vocal music, and drawing from models, were all at the ends of his ten chilled fingers.
He was fascinated by their cryptic alphabets and orthographies, their strange pictures for foreign children.
It had cost Adam a great deal of trouble and work in overhours to know what he knew over and above the secrets of his handicraft, and that acquaintance with mechanics and figures, and the nature of the materials he worked with, which was made easy to him by inborn inherited faculty--to get the mastery of his pen, and write a plain hand, to spell without any other mistakes than must in fairness be attributed to the unreasonable character of orthography rather than to any deficiency in the speller, and, moreover, to learn his musical notes and part-singing.
I venture to repeat that whereas the English orthography needs reforming and simplifying, the English alphabet needs it two or three million times more.