cacography
/kaˈkɒɡɹəfi/
noun3
- Bad spelling or punctuation, especially unintuitive spellings considered as a feature of a whole language or dialect.
- Many illegible letters is the sign of disorder, and the illegibility of Greeley's cacography has furnished numberless anecdotes. — 1904
- The soul of dialect is cacography, the deliberate misspelling of words for comic effect, which is the written equivalent of the malapropism. — 2003
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