I am willing to lay the blame of these errata on my own cacography, rather than on the printer's back. |
The soul of dialect is cacography, the deliberate misspelling of words for comic effect, which is the written equivalent of the malapropism. |
A phrase exhibits proofs of cacography, when the accents are misplaced, forgotten, or used erroneously. |
And yet, upon careful examination we find a method, a system, in his orthography, or rather in his cacography. |
A letter more or less in a name was of no account in the cacography of those times. |
Many illegible letters is the sign of disorder, and the illegibility of Greeley's cacography has furnished numberless anecdotes. |