Antiphonetic

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Going against the rules of phonetics; not spelled according to the sound.

    "The writer is not responsible for the antiphonetic spelling of this and many other colonial names of places."

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"The writer is not responsible for the antiphonetic spelling of this and many other colonial names of places."

Etymology

From anti- + phonetic.

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