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- DictionaryOr·thog·ra·phy/ôrˈTHäɡrəfē/
noun
- 1. the conventional spelling system of a language: "a spoken language which has as yet no sanctioned orthography"
- 2. another term for orthographic projection
noun
English orthography is the writing system used to represent spoken English, allowing readers to connect the graphemes to sound and to meaning. It includes English's norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalisation, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation. Like the orthography of most world languages, English orthography has a broad degree of standardisation. This standardisation began to develop when... Wikipedia