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Example sentences for: orthography
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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 alphabet was trimmed of a letter that had become phonetically superfluous, as c has become in English, and the orthography was simplified by the omission of the hard sign after final hard consonants.
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.
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 common ligature in German orthography is the esszet (β, β) and there are three vowels which can take the umlaut (ä, ö, and ü ).
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