A phrase exhibits proofs of cacography, when the accents are misplaced, forgotten, or used erroneously.
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Cacography
//kaˈkɒɡɹəfi//
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Finnish
2 entries- huono käsiala noun (Translations)
- tuherrus noun (Translations)
French
1 entries- cacographie noun (Translations)
Galician
1 entries- cacografía noun (Translations)
German
4 entries- Falschschreibung noun (Translations)
- Verballhornung noun (Translations)
- schlechte Handschrift noun (Translations)
- schlechter Schreibstil noun (Translations)
Italian
1 entries- cacografia noun (Translations)
Macedonian
1 entries- ногопис noun (Translations)
Polish
1 entries- kakografia noun (Translations)
Portuguese
1 entries- cacografia noun (Translations)
Romanian
1 entries- cacografie noun (Translations)
Russian
1 entries- какогра́фия noun (Translations)
Spanish
1 entries- cacografía noun (Translations)
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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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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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Many illegible letters is the sign of disorder, and the illegibility of Greeley's cacography has furnished numberless anecdotes.
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