Welcome to another exciting episode of Word Woman's Weekly Work-Out! Keep your brain in shape for the long haul with life-long learning. Now, let's stretch those neural pathways with the Word of the Week:
Heterography: [het-uh-rah-gruh-fee] an obsolete and rare word meaning 'incorrect spelling'. Also, inorthography. How much better to say, "I'm an inorthographist" than to admit that you can't spell? -- "More Weird and Wonderful Words", Erin McKean, ed., Oxford University Press, 2003.
Example: Jesse's intractable heterography was such an issue at work that he ultimately took to communicating only via e-mail, so that Spell-Check could make him comprehensible to his co-workers.
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