10 May 2016
orthography
[awr-thog-ruh-fee]
noun, plural orthographies for 3–5.
1. the art of writing words with the proper letters, according to accepted usage; correct spelling.
2. the part of language study concerned with letters and spelling.
3. a method of spelling, as by the use of an alphabet or other system of symbols; spelling.
4. a system of such symbols:
Missionaries provided the first orthography for the language.
5. an orthographic projection, or an elevation drawn by means of it.
Origin of orthography
late Middle English Latin Greek
1425-1475; late Middle English ortografye < Latin orthographia correct writing, orthogonal projection < Greek orthographía. See ortho-, -graphy
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Examples from the Web for orthography
Historical Examples
The orthography of the word cannot be determined, it is spelled “Shiblom” in the passage above, and Shiblon in another.
New Witnesses for God (Volume 2 of 3)
B. H. Roberts
The pillars of state of English orthography at least seemed destined to totter.
Emmy Lou
George Madden Martin
Will they forego the facts of an epoch, for the orthography of a syllable?
The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, January 1876
Various
The new generation is more proficient in video games than in orthography.
The Civilization of Illiteracy
Mihai Nadin
In the orthography of his native names he was not so successful.
Captain Cook’s Journal During the First Voyage Round the World
James Cook
I may plead precedent for taking a liberty with the orthography of Jem.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)
Augustus de Morgan
Mr Hale felt the necessity of adopting a peculiar style of orthography to represent the sounds of these words.
The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 3
Hubert Howe Bancroft
The orthography of this language is a most vexed and perplexed affair.
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
Various
Names of islands according to the dialect or orthography followed by Prichard.
The Natural History of the Varieties of Man
Robert Gordon Latham
His attainments in orthography, however, are not so surprising as those in arithmetic.
Anecdotes of Dogs
Edward Jesse
Today’s quote
We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words – to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.
– C.S. Lewis
On this day
10 May 1837 – the Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail and unemployment reaches record levels.
10 May 1893 – the Supreme Court of the United States rules in Nix v Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883.
10 May 1908 – Mother’s Day first celebrated. Andrews Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia in the United States becomes the first place in the world to hold the first official Mother’s Day celebration. 407 women were in attendance that day. In 1872 Julie Ward Howe suggested a national holiday to celebrate peace and motherhood. At that time, many local groups held their own celebration of motherhood, but most were religious gatherings. Another influential figure was Anna Jarvis who campaigned for a national holiday following the death of her mother in 1905. Her mother, social activist Ann Jarvis used to hold an annual celebration, Mother’s Friendship Day, to help ease the pain of the US Civil War. In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson declared Mother’s Day a national holiday on the second Sunday of May. Anna Jarvis was arrested at a Mother’s Day celebration when she tried to stop the selling of flowers. She stated, ‘I wanted it to be a day of sentiment not of profit‘.
10 May 1924 – Edgard J. Hoover appointed Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A position he holds until his death in 1972.
10 May 1933 – in Germany, Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
10 May 1941 – Deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess, parachutes into Scotland to negotiate a peace settlement between the UK and Germany. Hess was arrested and convicted of crimes against peace and spent the remainder of his life in jail. He died in 1987.
10 May 1954 – Bill Haley and His Comets release Rock Around the Clock, the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.
10 May 1960 – birth of Bono (Paul David Hewson), activist and Irish singer-songwriter with U2.
10 May 1994 – Nelson Mandela inaugurated as South Africa’s first black president.
10 May 2003 – The Golden Gumboot opens in Tully, North Queensland. It stands 7.9m tall and represents the record annual rainfall of 7900mm that Tully received in1950. Tully is officially Australia’s wettest town.