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orthography
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
orthography. Elevations of a building or any part of it, showing correct relative proportions.
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Ojibwe Language
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...as mnemonic devices rather than as modern orthography. In 1848, a syllabic orthography was developed for the Ojibwe language that...there is still no single universally accepted orthography. However, the double-vowel system devised...
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Cassiodorus Senator, Flavius Magnus Aurelius
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...and, at the age of ninety-three, composed a work on orthography for the monks who were engaged in transcribing manuscripts...Cassiodorus (London, 1886). Cassiodorus ’ work on orthography was edited by H. Keil in Grammatici latini (Leipzig, 1880...
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Kwannon
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism
Kwannon. Japanese name of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara in an older form of orthography, now obsolete. Also known as Kannon .
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Book of Aneirin
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
...Aneirin . Transcribed in the middle of the 13th century and now kept in the South Glamorgan County Library; 80 per cent of the orthography is 13th-century, while 20 per cent dates from the 9th and 10th centuries. The manuscript includes the famous poem Gododdin...
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Carolingian Schools
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
...they restored Latin to the position of a literary language, and their scholars were largely responsible for the formation of a more accurate orthography. They also copied and preserved texts of the classics, both Christian and pagan.
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Indian Languages
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...by white missionaries and anthropologists, but Native speakers have taken responsibility for promulgating standardized orthographies. The strong tradition of orality has given many Indian languages as rigorous a set of conventions about usage as exists...
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Codes, Elliott
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...that of his mentor Baird in 1858. A distinctive feature of the Check-List d was Coues ’ s corrections in the orthography and pronunciation of original scientific names, a change he was unable to impose on taxonomy. He was a leader in the trend...
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Kaempfer, Engelbert
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...to Latin and vernacular names in Western usage. The on reading is associated with the old Chinese pronunciation, while the kun is the true Japanese pronunciation.) But, because of his orthography of Japanes names and his imperfect
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-graph
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
...formations in -graphy . Some words in -graphy denote processes or styles of writing or graphic representation, as calligraphy , orthography , photography , typography ; but mostly they are names of sciences, as bibliography , geography , lexicography , topography...
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