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Example sentences for: orthography
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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.
The circonflexe , on the other hand, is really a sign of orthography , not pronunciation, being a reminder of a dropped s—it is usually there for historical reasons but connoting a reason which has long since ceased to make sense and which modern French speakers have probably been blithely unaware of.
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 ).
The forces that are bringing a little more order to orthography are doing the same to semantics.
The orthography used here for the Serbian slang-words is not a standardized transliteration of today's Serbian Cyrillics, and not an official Latin spelling--which would be Croatian, and therefore taboo.