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Walter W. Skeat, surely one of the greatest linguists of all time and an outstanding innovator of his day (late 19th century), was often given to testy replies when a correspondent to Notes and Queries either disagreed with him or speculated on the etymology of a word without having first looked it up in one of Skeat's works or, if the alphabetic section had appeared, in the Oxford English Dictionary . He was often nasty; but toward the latter part of the 1890s the crust softened, and he mellowed a bit.
Thus, we might conclude that Egyptian hieroglyphics are largely pleremic, while our modern alphabetic system is largely cenemic, though neither is exclusively so.
This paragraph by Allan Simmons is an alphabetic pun:
We then verified the MeSH terms [mh] using the National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings-Annotated Alphabetic List, 2001, which was the current thesaurus at the inception of the study.
Visible speech, regardless whether alphabetic or logographic, with all its faults and foibles, its inherent inconsistencies, inadequacies, and inaccuracies, it seems, is here to stay.