phonography

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The recording, part of Capitol's new import of Russian phonography, is disappointing.

From Time Magazine Archive

This begins with about twenty pages of words that can be read at once by those who have used the "First Nursery Reading-Book," because the Roman alphabet is a phonography for it all.

From Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. by Mann, Mary E.

For words are not mere sounds, and in their orthography more is implied than in phonetics, or phonography.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

He gave ample hearing to the advocates of phonography and of phonographic spelling.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

Not having learned phonography, I can give you no adequate notion of it; but it was a combination of the owl's screech and the pig's scream.

From American Scenes, and Christian Slavery A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States by Davies, Ebenezer