How To Use Orthography In A Sentence

  • Language issues focus on the return of phonetics, purged from Soviet Ukrainian orthography by Russification, and on the macaronic Russo / Ukrainian surzhyk.
  • Accuracy is thus particularly relevant when testing reading in a pointed orthography, which involves attention to both letters and diacritics in different linguistic contexts.
  • With the support of the Igloolik Research Centre, the names were transcribed into the syllabic orthography, and a parallel database using syllables was created.
  • The orthography of Interlingua is based on the 26 letters of the Roman alphabet with no diacritical or accent marks.
  • Countenance, more literally, colour, complexion; the more correct orthography seems to _blea_ -- yellow. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1
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  • Per normal English orthography / pronunciation rules, one would expect to pronounce ‘leafleter’ ‘leaf-leeter.’
  • American and English orthography are very much alike.
  • More substantial still was Miguel Azguime's (ThS) inking Survival Kit, the eccentric orthography of whose title heralded a work of imagination but almost wilful obscurity. Evening Standard - Home
  • [142] The proper orthography of this expression is deoch-an-doruis Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
  • This does not deny the importance of work by linguists on problems of orthography.
  • In the orthography of the Felibres the diagraph ue is used as we find it in Old French to represent this vowel. Frederic Mistral
  • This work comprises eighteen books, the first sixteen setting out, after a brief introduction to orthography, the eight Latin word classes (parts of speech) in great detail.
  • The modern Turkish orthography consists of 29 Roman letters and was designed to embody sounds in the spoken language in a totally transparent manner.
  • The orthography was developed by Nance from the surviving texts, and vocabulary is extended by analogizing from Breton and Welsh and forming compounds from existing words.
  • This led to many awkward results, as when the art of printing is placed by the side of orthography as a subdivision of Logic, to which also is given the art of heraldry or emblazonment. Diderot and the Encyclopaedists
  • Thus, the systematic combination of kanji and kana, and to a limited extent, of romaji in the Japanese orthography, provides rich sources for research and pedagogy.
  • Shaw's knowledge of phonetics and views on literacy led him to demand a rational system of spelling which would follow the sounds of English and reduce time wasted by traditional orthography.
  • Examples of classifying adjectives are orthographic 'referring to orthography' as in orthographic reform and physical 'referring to physics' as in physical experiment. Topping Shakespeare? Aspects of the Nobel Prize for Literature
  • The orthography requires both accents above and dots below certain letters, and getting this rendered correctly on the web without special fonts remains a bit chancy.
  • Since the vulgar dialects of the people had neither alphabet nor orthography, he chalked the Latin words for "Penance, Solitude, and Silence," on a large flat stone, and wrote them again below in ancient English, hoping, in spite of his unacknowledged yearning for someone to talk to, that the old man would understand and leave him to his lonely Lenten vigil. A Canticle for Leibowitz
  • Now the word is spelled ‘oedipus’ and the digraph is gone from American English orthography.
  • Vernacular and academic orthography are therefore often sharply contrasted, the latter having strict conventions for transliterating Arabic into Roman script.
  • American uses different orthography than English in at least some cases ligatured ae and oe are hardly ever used in American. Languagehat.com: BLACK ENGLISH.
  • His remarks on French, focus on syntax and semantics, all but omitting phonology, phonetics and orthography.
  • Vernacular and academic orthography are therefore often sharply contrasted, the latter having strict conventions for transliterating Arabic into Roman script.
  • I abhor such fanatical phantasimes, such insociable and point-devise companions; such rackers of orthography, as to speak dout, fine, when he should say doubt; det, when he should pronounce debt, -- d, Love's Labour's Lost
  • What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, syllabication?
  • Nothing could be more striking than the contrast between the illiterate locutions and the eccentric orthography of Fenella's letters and the subtle remarks and speculations upon the symbols of nature. -- the dukkeripen of the woods, the streams, the stars, and the winds. Aylwin
  • The general implication is that the ambiguities that exist in the relationships between orthography, phonology, and morphology underlie spelling knowledge.
  • Working with locals, the missionary or team endeavors to learn the language, develop an orthography (writing system; usually an alphabet, sometimes a syllabary), teach literacy, and finally BEGIN translating portions of the Bible. Literacy News – 875th Edition « News « Literacy News
  • Of course, the closest cognate to any of these rephrasings is the well-known term used to designate (also pejoratively) 'the Sicarii' -- the 'iota' and the 'sigma' of the Greek simply having been reversed, a common mistake in the transliteration of Semitic orthography into unrelated languages further afield like English, the 'iota' likewise too generating out of the 'ios' of the Greek singular 'Sicarios.' Robert Eisenman: Rehabilitating 'Judas Iscariot'
  • I abhor such fanatical phantasimes, such insociable and point-devise companions; such rackers of orthography... Shakespeare's Insult 22-23 July 2006
  • [39] Michilimackinac, the term alluded to, is the original French orthography of Mish En I Mok In Ong, the _local_ form (sing. and plu.), of Turtle Spirits. The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians
  • A comparison of English and Greek in relation to their regularity has indicated that English is a language with deep orthography, where phoneme-grapheme correspondence is not consistent. Reading Development in Two Different Contexts:the Case of the English-greek Bilingual Children in UK and in Cyprus « Articles « Literacy News
  • The textbase available to the present writer permits only the counting of very common words, since only these are standardised in orthography in the texts, and there is no tagging beyond selected common word types.
  • This paper will address the relationship between 'school orthography' and graphemics.
  • Warburton and Johnson, read _vice versa_: This is abominable which he would call abhominable, which destroys the poet's humour, such as it is, who is laughing at such fanatical phantasms and rackers of orthography as affect to speak fine. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2
  • Latin verb gustare, “to taste;” but Medlar pleaded custom in behalf of C, observing, that, by the Doctor’s rule, we ought to change pudding into budding, because it is derived from the French word boudin; and in that case why not retain the original orthography and pronunciation of all the foreign words we have adopted, by which means our language would become a dissonant jargon without standard or propriety? The Adventures of Roderick Random
  • Even the orthography functions as a unit of visual organization, and of allusion: much of the verse is in fact structured by an acrostic.
  • And yet, upon careful examination we find a method, a system, in his orthography, or rather in his cacography.
  • I was going to say something about the politics of orthography development and use Serbian vs Croatian, the four competing Cornish orthographies, etc but I guess I have a new example. Languagehat.com: SCRIPT REFORM THROUGH ARSON.
  • The combination of alphabetic orthography and Google is an interesting new tool for language identification!
  • The former will probably most appreciate the extensive explanations Oliver provides on orthography, phonology, morphology, and syntax, and her updating of the arguments with the latest scholarship.
  • Although it's not _quite_ how I would do it, I like it better than traditional French orthography* and think your respelled English is not a good comparison. Languagehat.com: UN SIT FASIL A LIR.
  • In modern Paraguayan orthography, the nasal vowels are represented with the nasal tilde (~) over the oral version of the vowel.
  • But those attitudes belong to the past, along with grammar drills and orthography.
  • Both are topics in the following discussion of orthography, pronunciation and rhyme, syntactic structure, vocabulary and word-formation, linguistic variety, rhetoric, and pragmatics.
  • Garifuna spellings vary because there is no common orthography (method of spelling), which is spoken in five Central American countries.
  • By no means, say I. It is perfectly vindicable orthography.
  • But Rayner also readily acknowledges that orthography, semantics and syntax are important in reading.
  • They had to be transcribed, entailing a whole series of choices about lineation, punctuation, and orthography. Is Rap Poetry?
  • The orthography is doubtful, but there is little question that a kind of bramble-bush is intended. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
  • In its orthography, German gives an initial capital letter to its nouns, a practice common in English until the mid eighteenth century.
  • Latin verb gustare, "to taste;" but Medlar pleaded custom in behalf of C, observing, that, by the Doctor's rule, we ought to change pudding into budding, because it is derived from the French word boudin; and in that case why not retain the original orthography and pronunciation of all the foreign words we have adopted, by which means our language would become a dissonant jargon without standard or propriety? The Adventures of Roderick Random
  • In the commencement, the student ought carefully to reperuse what he has written, correct, in the first instance, every error of orthography and grammar. John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court
  • The orthographies of the world's major languages, however, became standardized in the context of publishing books, using any orthography that people would read.
  • All the foils were unrelated in meaning, sound, and orthography to the study sets.
  • His remarks on French, focus on syntax and semantics, all but omitting phonology, phonetics and orthography.
  • The chirography was the fashionable "long English;" the diction was good, and the orthography faultless. The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)
  • English orthography is such that diacritics are allographic and ligatures are allographic. Discussions: Message List - root
  • One imagines pile after pile of index cards and boxes, double checking of dates and Polish orthography, then having to do the frightful copyedit of the galleys. HENSLEY WOODBRIDGE1923 – 2001
  • Thus, the systematic combination of kanji and kana, and to a limited extent, of romaji in the Japanese orthography, provides rich sources for research and pedagogy.
  • I abhor such fanatical phantasimes, such insociable and point-devise companions; such rackers of orthography, as to speak dout, fine, when he should say doubt; det, when he should pronounce debt, — d, Love’s Labour ’s Lost
  • What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, syllabication?
  • Take, for instance, Master Holofernes's vituperation of Don Adrian de Armado in _Love's Labour Lost_, and see what you can make of it: 'I abhor such phantasms, such insociable and point-devise companions, such rackers of orthography, as to speak Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 460 Volume 18, New Series, October 23, 1852
  • Then there are slight variants from our modern orthography or meanings, as _mained_ for maimed, _markman_ for marksman, _make_ for mate, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.
  • The WASPT has several sections, including reading comprehension, vocabulary, orthography and stress mark, and writing composition.
  • Thurstan Peter's transcript appears to be reasonably accurate as regards spelling and orthography.
  • The name of the organization created to further Basic, the Orthological Institute, echoes such terms as orthodoxy, orthography, and orthoepy.
  • _point device_ companions, such rackers of orthography, as to speak doubt _fine_ when _he should say doubt_, etc. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
  • On the other hand, Greek is a language with regular orthography, where phoneme-grapheme correspondence is consistent. Reading Development in Two Different Contexts:the Case of the English-greek Bilingual Children in UK and in Cyprus « Articles « Literacy News
  • Thus, the systematic combination of kanji and kana, and to a limited extent, of romaji in the Japanese orthography, provides rich sources for research and pedagogy.
  • And yet, upon careful examination we find a method, a system, in Underhill's orthography, or rather in his cacography. Sabbath in Puritan New England
  • So it's a mixture of information about orthography, syntax; it has a small grammar section, and over time it's expanded what's contained within that.
  • While most of her misspellings simply reflect her lack of knowledge of standard Spanish orthography, the words listed below demonstrate her nonstandard pronunciation.
  • The Third Part relates to grammar, syntax, orthography, vowels and consonants.
  • Some Inuit leaders, such as John Amagoalik and Jose Kusugak, have long advocated a common writing system, and even a move from syllabics to Roman orthography.

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