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heterography|-ˈɒgrəfɪ|
[f. Gr. ἑτερο- hetero- + -γραϕία writing. Opposed to orthography.]
1. Spelling that differs from that which is correct according to current usage; ‘incorrect’ spelling.
1783S. Parr Wks. (1828) VII. 390 Neoteric affectations of Archaism and Heterography. 1831Blackw. Mag. XXX. 667 His orthography, or rather heterography, has been a subject of keen animadversion; and he has been charged with misspelling his own name. 1876Blackmore Cripps xlv, I corrected his heterography. 1908Daily Chron. 6 May 4/6 On the subject of ‘howlers’, we all make them at times, being victims of heterophasia (or heterography). 1920W. Perrett Peetickay 15 There is a pretty general consensus that unconventional spelling or heterography is bad spelling.
2. Irregular and inconsistent spelling (as the current spelling of English).
1847De Quincey in Tait's Mag. XIV. 162 All climates alike groan under heterography.
So heteˈrographer, one who practises heterography; heteroˈgraphic a., pertaining to or characterized by heterography.
1864Realm 20 Apr. 7 Mr. Landor..records, in heterographic hexameters, Porson's opinion. 1865H. B. Wheatley in Philol. Soc. Trans. (title) Notes on some English Heterographers. 1883H. P. Smith Gloss. Terms & Phrases, Heterographic, using the same combinations of written letters to express different sounds, as English spelling does. |