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heterography | Word of the Day
July 27, 2019
heterography
[het-
uh
-
rog
-r
uh
-fee]
noun
1.
the use of the same letter or combination of letters to represent different sounds, as, in English, the use of
s
in
sit
and
easy
.
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QUOTES
... the whole world lies in heresy or schism on the subject of orthography. All climates alike groan under
heterography
.
-- Thomas De Quincey, "Orthographic Mutineers,"
Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
, Vol. 14, March 1847
ORIGIN
Orthodoxy
"correct belief" is to
heterodoxy
as
orthography
"correct writing" is to
heterography
. The combining form
hetero
- comes from the Greek adjective
héteros
"one of two, the other, different." (Even in ancient authors, words prefixed with
hetero
- were ambiguous:
heterodoxía
could mean "difference of opinion" and "error in opinion.")
Heterography
originally meant "misspelling, incorrect spelling, bad spelling" (like
awsome
,
kat
,
miniscule
), then "irregular or inconsistent spelling," which is usual in English: consider the value of
c
in
call
and
cell,
or of -
ough
in
bough
,
cough
,
rough
,
though
, or
through
.
Heterography
entered English in the late 18th century.
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