phonography

American  

[foh-nog-ruh-fee] / foʊˈnɒg rə fi /

noun

plural

phonographies

1. phonetic spelling, writing, or shorthand.

2. a system of phonetic shorthand, as that invented by Sir Isaac Pitman in 1837.

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phonography British  

/ fəʊˈnɒɡrəfɪ /

noun

1. a writing system that represents sounds by individual symbols Compare logography

2. the employment of such a writing system

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Other Word Forms

• phonographer noun
• phonographist noun

Etymology

Origin of phonography

First recorded in 1695–1705; phono- + -graphy

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

They all know the digital sign language; but German and phonography classed him as one above the ordinary.

From Ashton-Kirk, Investigator by McIntyre, John T.

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.

After all, the language will shape itself by larger forces than phonography and dictionary-making.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 by Various

He had been taken by Pitman's then new phonography, and his chief occupation at that time was teaching it wherever at any school he could form a class.

From The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I by Stillman, William James