Whats the difference between orthography and spelling? @Lefteris Gkinis Orthography is an English word that had origin from a Greek word; translating a word in Greek, and reporting what that means in Greek is essentially wrong because the topic of this site is English If you report from which Greek word the English word has been originated, that is fine, but saying "the Greek word means this
Newest orthography Questions - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Orthography of an -s plural with contraction of "is" [closed] In Wilson Vance and John Philip Sousa's operetta Katherine (1879), we have these two lines: Telling my brave [deeds is] my scorn The day of knightly [deeds is] not gone In both cases, [deeds is]
orthography - English Language Usage Stack Exchange preface Since this is an area where certain confusions are possible, I want to start by noting that the Old English letter Æ æ (named ash) represented a sound that is etymologically unrelated to the ligature Æ æ used in words derived from Latin (where it represents what was originally a diphthong sound in Latin)
orthography - Are spelling, punctuation and capitalization part of . . . Until a not very distant date, Grammar was divided by English writers (following the precedent of Latin grammarians) into Orthography, Etymology, Syntax, and Prosody, to which Orthoëpy was added by some authors All these terms (except Syntax) were used more or less inaccurately (see the several words) The division now usual is that into
orthography - What is this famous example of the absurdity of English . . . This fallacy arises from the incorrect application of the rules linking orthography to phonology 1, resulting in an argument that 'ghoti' should be pronounced similarly to 'fish': gh, pronounced [f] as in enough [ɪˈnʌf] or tough [tʌf]; o, pronounced [ɪ] as in women [ˈwɪmɪn]; and