How to Use orthography in a Sentence

orthography

noun
  • Egyptian Arabic still lacks a standardized orthography, but its use has become more common during the past fifteen years, in part because of the Internet and texting.
    Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 2017-04-07
  • But English is, of course, a very peculiar language, as Bernard Shaw complains, the orthography and the pronunciation have nothing in common.
    Gabe Friedman, sun-sentinel.com, 2019-10-17
  • Typically, Tolkien and his language-nerd adherents have developed the tongue’s grammar and orthography to almost headache-inducing levels.
    John Baichtal, WIRED, 2009-08-26
  • In 1870, reading English was required for Harvard, while Princeton required English grammar and orthography.
    Anthony Conwright, The New Republic, 2021-07-29
  • The governments of Nunavut and of Canada, the newspaper’s biggest advertisers, still want adverts set in syllabics and in the roman orthography now used for Inuinnaqtun, an official language in the territory.
    The Economist, 2019-10-03

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