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Definition:(gram.), the art or practice of spelling words correctly.Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908)---1. The art or practice of writing words with the proper letters, according to standard usage; conventionally correct spelling; also, mode of spelling;2. The part of grammar which treats of the letters, and of the art of spelling words correctly.3. A drawing in correct projection, especially an elevation or a vertical section.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Then the bay tried me with a second word, much harder to be pronounced; but reducing it to the English orthography, may be spelt thus, Houyhnhnm.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
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He always signed his name "Henery"—strenuously insisting upon that spelling, and if any passing schoolmaster ventured to remark that the second "e" was superfluous and old-fashioned, he received the reply that "H-e-n-e-r-y" was the name he was christened and the name he would stick to—in the tone of one to whom orthographical differences were matters which had a great deal to do with personal character.
Thomas Hardy. Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
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Occasionally, he was tripped up by some orthographical stumbling-block; but on the whole he got on very well indeed; and when he had signed his name, and had removed a finishing blot from the paper to the crown of his head with his two forefingers, he got up and hovered about the table, trying the effect of his performance from various points of view, as it lay there, with unbounded satisfaction.
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