phonographyn.
/fəˈnɒɡrəfi/, U.S. /fəˈnɑɡrəfi/ 1. Phonetic representation or spelling.
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society > communication > writing > system of writing > [noun] > symbolic writing > phonetic
phonography1701
phonetism1848
visible speech1865
sonography1887
1701 J. Jones (title) Practical phonography: or, the new art of rightly spelling and writing words by the sound thereof, and of rightly sounding and reading words by the sight thereof.
1851 R. C. Trench Study of Words vii. 215 The same attempt to introduce phonography has been several times made.
1980 Logophile 3 20/2 The system of visual substitutes for the sounds of the oral language is called phonography.
1998 A. Y. Durgonolu Literacy Devel. 86 Writing systems can be classified into two categories: morphography (or logography),..and phonography (or phonetic script).
2. spec. Isaac Pitman's name for: the system of phonetic shorthand that he invented in 1837.
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society > communication > writing > system of writing > shorthand > [noun] > systems of
radiography?1616
polygraphy1747
Tironian notes1828
sound-hand1837
phonography1840
phraseography1845
idiography1847
Pitman1869
Pitman1916
Speedwriting1925
snelskrif1949
1840 I. Pitman (title) Phonography, or writing by sound; being a natural method of writing, applicable to all languages, and a complete system of short hand.
1847 I. Pitman Hist. Shorthand in Man. Phonogr. (1889) §15. 8 Phonography is not adapted to the wants of the reporter alone, but is..well suited for letter-writing and general composition.
1937 Times 23 July 14 Sir Stephen Killik, proposing the toast, ‘Sir Isaac Pitman and Phonography’.
2003 School Arts (Nexis) 1 Dec. 31 At Isaac's urging, Benn immigrated to the United States to introduce the country to phonography.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > [noun]
orthoepy1640
phonology1798
phonetics1841
phonics1844
phonography1847
1847 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Phonography, a description of the laws of the human voice, or of the sounds uttered by the organs of speech.
4. The recording of sound, esp. by means of a phonautograph or phonograph; the construction and use of phonographs. Now chiefly historical.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > [noun] > systems of
phonography1861
wire recording1933
stereophony1950
half-track1956
stereo1956
stereophonics1958
lip-synchronization1959
mono1959
monophony1959
pretaping1959
over-recording1961
Dolby1966
quadraphonics1968
quadraphony1969
surround sound1969
periphony1970
quad1971
multitrack1972
quadraphonic1972
quadro1972
pseudoquadraphony1975
multitracking1977
vertical recording1982
bitstream1989
1861 G. J. Whyte-Melville Market Harborough xxi. 247 Savage..was explaining to Sawyer..a new discovery termed phonography, by which sounds or vibrations of air are to be taken down, as they arise, upon the principle of the photograph.
1886 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. V. ii Phonography... 3. The art of using, or registering by means of, the phonograph; the construction of phonographs.
1981 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 27 Sept. 21 In the dim beginnings of phonography, a pioneer recordist named Lionel Mapleson rigged a tin-horned Edison machine above the Met's stage to capture parts of actual performances.
2000 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 58 362 A crude characterization of works of phonography would describe them as ‘doctored’ or manipulated recordings.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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