cacography
Example Sentences
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A letter more or less in a name was of no account in the cacography of those times.
From Claverhouse by Mowbray Morris
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 Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
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 Emily Sarah Holt
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 Alice Morse Earle
I am willing to lay the blame of these errata on my own cacography, rather than on the printer's back.
From Notes and Queries, Number 185, May 14, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
