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ORTHOGRAPHY
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
ORTHOGRAPHY [Through FRENCH and LATIN from GREEK...common among scholars of language. The orthography of English has standardized on two systems...than is possible, for example, in the orthography of Scots. See ABBREVIATION , ACRONYM...
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TRADITIONAL ORTHOGRAPHY
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
TRADITIONAL ORTHOGRAPHY. Usual short form t.o . A term used especially by SPELLING reformers for the conventional ORTHOGRAPHY of standard English, usually in contrast to proposed replacements. See INITIAL TEACHING ALPHABET .
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Azerbaijani Turks
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Azerbaijan Republic has used the Cyrillic orthography since the late 1930s, after about a decade of Latin orthography, which replaced the earlier Arabo...government plans to reinstate Latin orthography in 1993. Azerbaijani is a language...
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SIMPLIFIED SPELLING SOCIETY
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...x2013;87). A phonetic orthography Between about 1915 and 1924...issued reading books in a phonetic orthography for learners in schools, such...regular system than in traditional orthography (t.o.). Organizational problems...
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French Academy
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...of French literary effort, grammar, orthography, and rhetoric. The membership was...conservative attitude of these books toward orthography, new words, and grammatical development...simply to record forms; legislation on orthography and grammar was made a function of the...
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Russian Literature and Language
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...recognized as their authors. CIVIL ORTHOGRAPHY, PRINT, AND THE NEW LITERARY LANGUAGE Peter the Great's new civil orthography of 1707 and his aggressive deployment...de Lycidas. Along with the new orthography and the nascent literary language...
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SPELLING REFORM
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...x2018;correct writing’ ( ORTHOGRAPHY ) emerged partly because printers sought...among other things as authorities on orthography, and have strongly influenced the orthographic...Ortografía ( New Norms of Orthography ), recommending that silent initial...
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GLASGOW
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...untraditional ‘phonetic’ and quasi-illiterate orthography, intended to emphasize the demotic character of the speech. An exaggerated variant of this orthography has been favoured by or for the comedians Stanley Baxter and Billy...
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Udis
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...It is the only Daghestanian language known to have had an orthography before modern times. The decipherment of the small number...which they could not understand. In the early 1930s an Udi orthography was devised using the Latin script, and a primer was prepared...
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INITIAL TEACHING ALPHABET
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...are adaptations of forms already occurring in traditional orthography (t.o.), such as the digraphs au , ng , th . When the...appear that the best way to learn to read in traditional orthography is to learn to read in the initial teaching alphabet...
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