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An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, punctuation, word boundaries, capitalization, hyphenation, and emphasis.. Most national and international languages have an established writing system that has undergone substantial standardization, thus exhibiting less dialect variation than the spoken language.
Antonio de Nebrija, Reglas de orthographia en la lengua castellana cõpuestas por el Maestro Antonio de lebrixa ("Rules of orthography [...]", 1517) Juan de Valdés , Dialogo đla lengua ("Dialogue on the language", ca. 1535, manuscript) ( bdh.bne.es )
The Portuguese language began to be used regularly in documents and poetry around the 12th century. In 1290, King Dinis created the first Portuguese university in Lisbon (later moved to Coimbra) and decreed that Portuguese, then called simply the "common language", would henceforth be used instead of Latin, and named the "Portuguese language".
12. Bojangles: $20 8-Piece Chicken Box. Bojangles has a new family special right now, and it's no-frills but inexpensive. You get eight pieces of dark meat (legs and thighs) and four biscuits for $20.
Hamka’s death came after Loughnane subjected her to what Justice Christopher Beale described as a "torrent of highly abusive text messages" in which he threatened to torture her, drown her, set ...
A recent study compared the unhealthiest fast-food chicken sandwiches by scoring calories, saturated fat, sugar, and sodium. Find out where the most popular fast food chains ranked. Here are 20 ...
The following is a handy reference for editors, listing various common spelling differences between national varieties of English. Please note: If you are not familiar with a spelling, please do some research before changing it – it may be your misunderstanding rather than a mistake, especially in the case of American and British English spelling differences.
Rakeem Young, 34, was attacked while walking his 4-year-old pit bull Chanel near Southern Blvd. and E. 178th St. in East Tremont on Friday, Jan. 24, around 11:20 a.m. Young told the Daily News the ...