It is amusing to notice his lectures to Jeffrey, on his cacography, which may be attributed to a similar restlessness of mind. |
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And yet, upon careful examination we find a method, a system, in his orthography, or rather in his cacography. |
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The soul of dialect is cacography, the deliberate misspelling of words for comic effect, which is the written equivalent of the malapropism. |
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A phrase exhibits proofs of cacography, when the accents are misplaced, forgotten, or used erroneously. |
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Many illegible letters is the sign of disorder, and the illegibility of Greeley's cacography has furnished numberless anecdotes. |
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In 1997, two American entrepreneurs, Robert Hoffer and Timothy Kay, formed a company called Typo.net to try to profit from Web surfers' cacography. |
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