phonography
Americannoun
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phonetic spelling, writing, or shorthand.
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a system of phonetic shorthand, as that invented by Sir Isaac Pitman in 1837.
noun
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a writing system that represents sounds by individual symbols Compare logography
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the employment of such a writing system
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The recording, part of Capitol's new import of Russian phonography, is disappointing.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Mr. Rawlence said: 'There's an accomplishment coming into general use now that might help you enormously: phonography, shorthand-writing, you know.
From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by Dawson, A. J. (Alec John)
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
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