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Ho`mog´ra`phy
n.1.That method of spelling in which every sound is represented by a single character, which indicates that sound and no other.
2.(Geom.) A relation between two figures, such that to any point of the one corresponds one and but one point in the other, and vise versa. Thus, a tangent line rolling on a circle cuts two fixed tangents of the circle in two sets of points that are homographic.
homography
the process of using a distinct character to represent each sound. — homographic, adj.
See also: Writing
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3) While, as the focal issue of the present paper, the formal composition of puns will be handled in detail in section 3, it should be mentioned at this point that, concerned with the intersection of orthography and pronunciation, it rests on linguistic mechanisms encompassing homonymy, homophony, homography and paronymy.
The formal composition of puns in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost: ... by Adamczyk, Magdalena / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
Finally, I will deal with homography in the text and the problems it may cause for morphological analysis.
Orthography in the Cely letters by Rutkowska, Hanna / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
 
 
 
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