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Cacography
//kaˈkɒɡɹəfi// noun
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Noun
- 1 Bad spelling or punctuation, especially unintuitive spellings considered as a feature of a whole language or dialect. countable, uncountable
"A phrase exhibits proofs of cacography, when the accents are misplaced, forgotten, or used erroneously."
- 2 poor handwriting wordnet
- 3 Deliberate comic misspelling; malapropism. countable, uncountable
"The soul of dialect is cacography, the deliberate misspelling of words for comic effect, which is the written equivalent of the malapropism."
- 4 Poor or illegible handwriting. countable, uncountable
"Many illegible letters is the sign of disorder, and the illegibility of Greeley's cacography has furnished numberless anecdotes."
Etymology
From caco- + -graphy, perhaps after Middle French cacographie.
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