phonography

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

From Time Magazine Archive

He says repeatedly that "sound etymology has nothing to do with sound"; yet he approves phonography, holding that spelling signifies even less than sound,—which is contrary to the usual opinion of philologists.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 by Various

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

A public teacher of Pitman’s phonography had established himself in Derby, and the Midland engaged him to conduct classes for the junior clerks. 

From Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland by Tatlow, Joseph

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