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allograph::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | signature |
allograph::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | character, graph, grapheme, graphic symbol |
Examples of allograph
allograph
In graphemics, the term allograph denotes any graphs that are considered variants of a letter or other grapheme.
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An allograph may also be a smaller fragment of writing, that is a letter or a group of letters, which represents a particular sound.
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A positional example of allography is the so-called long s, a symbol which was once a widely-used non-final allograph of the lowercase letter s.
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This relationship between a letter and a sound is not necessarily fixed, for example in a different word, such as city, c is instead an allograph of an s sound.
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One notorious allograph in the English language is ough, which may easily represent more than 10 different sounds, depending on the word in which it is used.
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- A variant form of a grapheme, as `m' or `M' or a handwritten version of that grapheme
- A signature written by one person for another
- Allography, from the Greek for "other writing", has several meanings which all relate to how words and sounds are written down.
- N. - writing especially signature, for another; opposite of autograph.
