cacography

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Some of Artemus Ward's effects were produced by cacography or bad spelling, but there was genius in the wildly erratic way in which he handled even this rather low order of humor.

From Brief History of English and American Literature by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

Most lovely is the youthful hand of his eldest daughter: the cacography of her later years is, alas! something horrible.

From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Holt, Emily Sarah

If he owed to Smollett's Humphrey Clinker the form of his Up the Rhine, he has equalled Smollett in the narrative, in the variety of character, and in the admirable cacography of Martha Penny.

From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry

And yet, upon careful examination we find a method, a system, in Underhill's orthography, or rather in his cacography.

From Sabbath in Puritan New England by Earle, Alice Morse

A letter more or less in a name was of no account in the cacography of those times.

From Claverhouse by Morris, Mowbray