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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Etymology
Origin of phonography
Example Sentences
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The recording, part of Capitol's new import of Russian phonography, is disappointing.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
For all practical purposes phonography is no better now than it was thirty years ago.
From Work for Women by Manson, George J.
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
All that has been said and written against the custom will do less towards abolishing it than the recent introduction of lessons in phonography, or stenography rather, which is now taught in several universities.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 by Various
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