May 6, 2011 · This means that spelling is only a part of orthography (spelling is part of a writing system), but orthography includes a lot more than just spelling. That is where the difference …

I was at a museum in London yesterday, and one of the items on exhibit is a document from the eighteenth century. It uses the letter f a lot where s should be used—for example, in Majefty. …

May 10, 2017 · That definition doesn't justify the conclusion you cite. However, language is not necessarily "spoken"; strong evidence exists that language is gestural in origin. As such, the …

Jun 30, 2017 · This isn't strictly about the pronunciation of phonemes, all the phonemes in /fɪʃ/ are being pronounced as usual, rather this has to do with an incorrect application of the rules …

Aug 23, 2014 · Our numbers have a specific two-letter combination that tells us how the number sounds. For example 9th 3rd 301st What do we call these special sounds?

Jun 4, 2024 · What is the correct spelling of this word? See the discussion at (Codespell) false positive: unparseable.

Nov 8, 2014 · The city Tokyo was sometimes called Tokio, as can be seen in ngrams, and as one example, the WWII anti-Japanese movie Tokio Jokio. Why was Tokyo sometimes called …

The Wikipedia article on "Old English" has a section on "Orthography" that may be a good introduction. It says Modern editions of Old English manuscripts generally introduce some …

Feb 24, 2019 · The OED lists two categories of words which begin "by" or bi; -see below. By-product belongs to the second category and is spelled with a hyphen. To the first category …

Oct 4, 2012 · Explore related questions orthography hyphenation kinship-terms doubled-consonants See similar questions with these tags.