Example sentences for: orthography

How can you use “orthography” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The forces that are bringing a little more order to orthography are doing the same to semantics.

  • The common ligature in German orthography is the esszet (β, β) and there are three vowels which can take the umlaut (ä, ö, and ü ).

  • English orthography's quixotic, chimerical vagaries, allowing such Cheshire-cat creations as ghoti (= fish, courtesy of G.B. Shaw) and Ghoughphthleightteeaux (= potatoes; see Firmage), are notorious.

  • So it was soon shortened to catchascan , and then ultimately to catch , leaving the t in the written form, although it is foreign to Spanish orthography.

  • The text is punctuated here and there by tables showing the progressive development of selected symbols (as, for example, in Sumerian), the Devanagari syllabary (in which several modern and ancient Indian languages are written), the Hebrew, Arabic, and other alphabets, Chinese and Japanese writing, and attractive drawings showing the hieroglyphic (with sound values in English orthography).


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