单词 | heterography |
释义 | heterographyn. 1. Spelling that differs from that which is correct according to current usage; ‘incorrect’ spelling. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > spelling > [noun] > correct, customary spelling > incorrect cacography1574 heterography1783 1783 S. Parr Let. 7 Dec. in Wks. (1828) VII. 390 Neoteric affectations of Archaism and Heterography. 1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 30 667 His orthography, or rather heterography, has been a subject of keen animadversion; and he has been charged with misspelling his own name. 1876 R. D. Blackmore Cripps xlv I corrected his heterography. 1920 W. 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). ΚΠ 1847 T. De Quincey Orthogr. Mutineers in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 162 All climates alike groan under heterography. 3. The writing of one word or phrase when another is meant. ΚΠ 1908 Daily Chron. 6 May 4/6 On the subject of ‘howlers’, we all make them at times, being victims of heterophasia (or heterography). 1913 W. A. N. Dorland Illustr. Med. Dict. (ed. 7) Heterography. Derivatives heteˈrographer n. one who practises heterography. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > spelling > [noun] > correct, customary spelling > incorrect > one who practices heterography heterographer1865 1865 H. B. Wheatley in Philol. Soc. Trans. (title) Notes on some English heterographers. heteroˈgraphic adj. pertaining to or characterized by heterography. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > spelling > [adjective] > belonging to orthography or correct spelling > incorrect spelling, bad writing cacographical1838 heterographic1864 1864 Realm 20 Apr. 7 Mr. Landor..records, in heterographic hexameters, Porson's opinion. 1883 H. P. Smith Gloss. Terms & Phr. Heterographic, using the same combinations of written letters to express different sounds, as English spelling does. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1783 |
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