phoneticizationn.
/fəˌnɛtᵻsʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /foʊˌnɛdəsəˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /fəˌnɛdəsəˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /foʊˌnɛdəˌsaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /fəˌnɛdəˌsaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ Phonetic spelling or representation; an instance of this. Also: (greater) correlation of symbol and sound in a writing system.
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phoneticism1849
phoneticization1915
1915 Spectator 21 Aug. 235/1 To turn the Russian genitive plural termination into ‘off’, as is sometimes done, is to go in for an exaggerated phoneticization.
1959 Brno Stud. in Eng. 1 14 Voices demanding reforms of traditional spellings usually regard ‘phoneticization’ of such spellings as the only effective remedy.
1970 Language 46 959 For a primitive logographic system can develop into a full system of writing only if it succeeds in attaching to a sign a phonetic value independent of the meaning which this sign has as a ‘word’; this is phoneticization.
1992 Lang. in Society 21 204 This does assume..that the user speaks the standard dialect and can deal with methods of phoneticization of the script.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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