cacography

UK /kaˈkɒɡɹəfi/ US /kaˈkɒɡɹəfi/
noun 3

Definitions

noun

1

Bad spelling or punctuation, especially unintuitive spellings considered as a feature of a whole language or dialect.

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.

2

Deliberate comic misspelling; malapropism.

The soul of dialect is cacography, the deliberate misspelling of words for comic effect, which is the written equivalent of the malapropism.

3

Poor or illegible handwriting.

Many illegible letters is the sign of disorder, and the illegibility of Greeley's cacography has furnished numberless anecdotes.

Germans write a "1" so it's easy to confuse it with a "7": mathematics and cacography can leave Margret and I not speaking to each other for a week.

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