It is amusing to notice his lectures to Jeffrey, on his cacography, which may be attributed to a similar restlessness of mind. |
The soul of dialect is cacography, the deliberate misspelling of words for comic effect, which is the written equivalent of the malapropism. |
He blows off his steam with such an eagerness that he forgets for a time, or nearly forgets, his cacography. |
I am willing to lay the blame of these errata on my own cacography, rather than on the printer's back. |
And yet, upon careful examination we find a method, a system, in his orthography, or rather in his cacography. |
Many illegible letters is the sign of disorder, and the illegibility of Greeley's cacography has furnished numberless anecdotes. |