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.
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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
Besides acquiring the usual studies of the High School, he gave considerable time to phonography, in which he became so skilled that he could report any ordinary speaker with entire accuracy.
From The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by Napheys, George H. (George Henry)
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
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.
The trouble is, however, that many of the so-called teachers of phonography have never done any actual reporting in their lives, and their advice and suggestions are not of much value.
From Work for Women by Manson, George J.
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