Heterographic

Het`er`o`graph´ic

Employing the same letters to represent different sounds in different words or syllables; - said of methods of spelling; as, the ordinary English orthography is heterographic.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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Richter accepts responsibility only for grouping synchronically related forms into a single lexical entry, as well as listing their heterographic equivalents and synonyms.

Bibliographisches Glossar des Hurritischen

Nonetheless, the real-world effect of the valorisation of orthographic standardisation on one hand and the heterographic representation of SLV on the other should be acknowledged candidly.

Insular languages, global ideologies: the ideologies of a [begin strikethrough]British, Scottish[end strikethrough], Northern Island community

Concealed in word particles, multilingual wordplay, and other tricks of what might be called heterographic word mimicry, symptoms "may instead be construed as cryptic traces of an unspeakable drama concealed by someone--anyone--in a character's (theoretically) infinitely regressive family history" (157).