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What does cacography mean?

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Noun
  1. Bad spelling or punctuation, especially unintuitive spellings considered as a feature of a whole language or dialect. [from 16th c.]
  2. Poor or illegible handwriting. [from 17th c.]
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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.

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