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cacography

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10 lettersPronunciation /kaˈkɒɡɹəfi/Part of speech nounSorted aaccghopryStarts with CEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. poor handwriting

Word origin

From caco- + -graphy, perhaps after Middle French cacographie.

Used in a sentence

  • A phrase exhibits proofs of cacography, when the accents are misplaced, forgotten, or used erroneously.
  • In 1997, two American entrepreneurs, Robert Hoffer and Timothy Kay, formed a company called Typo.net to try to profit from Web surfers' cacography.
  • 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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