And Nicodemus has a disability, called cacography, that causes him to misspell texts simply by touching them.    From Wordnik.com.  [“Spellwright” by Blake Charlton (Reviewed by Robert Thompson)] Reference

My error was to think "cacography" might have been linked with cack-handedness, an apposite connection for some of us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ephems of BLB] Reference

I love new words, one of my favourites was cacography and another, deltiology both of which apply to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Horripilation] Reference

Wizard Apprentice Nicodemus had thought to be the prophesied Halcyon, but is afflicted with cacography, which stuns his growth as a magician.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW: Spellwright by Blake Charlton] Reference

Artemus Ward, from Maine, wrote a flat Down-Eastish dialect that relied heavily on pointless ( "sed" for "said") or drastic ( "goak" for "joke") cacography and lacked Kelly's lyricism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pogo] Reference

Nicodemus Weal was once believed to be the prophesied savoir, but hopes and dreams were crushed when it was discovered that he suffers from cacography – the inability to spell correctly in magical languages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-03-01] Reference

A letter more or less in a name was of no account in the cacography of those times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Claverhouse] Reference

I am willing to lay the blame of these errata on my own cacography, rather than on the printer's back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 185, May 14, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference

In "The Gold-Mines of Midian," p. 338, this name became, by virtue of the author's cacography, "Beoche.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Midian — Volume 1] Reference

And yet, upon careful examination we find a method, a system, in Underhill's orthography, or rather in his cacography.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sabbath in Puritan New England] Reference

Most lovely is the youthful hand of his eldest daughter: the cacography of her later years is, alas! something horrible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall] Reference

In contrast to medical cacography, which can kill us, calligraphy -- that is, "beautiful writing" -- simply takes our breath away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Powell's Books: Overview] Reference

Some of Artemus Ward's effects were produced by cacography or bad spelling, but there was genius in the wildly erratic way in which he handled even this rather low order of humor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference

Some of Artemus Ward's effects were produced, by cacography or bad spelling, but there was genius in the wildly erratic way in which he handled even this rather low order of humor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Initial Studies in American Letters] Reference

Civil-Service Examiners have contributed their share to this mass of entertaining knowledge, and shown from what parts of the kingdom bad spellers habitually come, what counties are celebrated for cacography, and in what districts etymology is an unknown thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General] Reference

297 The crabbed cacography of the original manuscript.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ephems of BLB] Reference

28 June, The compositors made very light of cacography.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ephems of BLB] Reference

318 A celebrated critic who sometimes condescends to amend my cacography.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ephems of BLB] Reference

858 The cacography of the Etruscans, as their rude and uncouth manner of writing is termed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ephems of BLB] Reference

Gold – Mines of Midian,” p. 338, this name became, by virtue of the author’s cacography, “Beoche.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Midian] Reference

155 The cause of this cacography which causeth such difficulty is a causeless affectation of the French dialect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ephems of BLB] Reference

Every one can comprehend something of an author's ease, when he sees his manuscript in print: it is safe; no longer a treasure uninsurable, no longer a locked-up care: it is emancipated, glorified, incapable of real extermination; it has reached a changeless condition; the chrysalis of illegible cacography has burst its bonds, and flies living through the world on the wings of those true Dædali, Faust, and Gutenberg: the transition-state is passed: henceforth for his brain-child set free from that nervous slumber, its parent calmly can expect the oblivion of no more than a death-like sleep, if he be not indeed buoyed up with certain hope of immortality.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper] Reference

Fomet, evident cacography.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference

" asked Ziller, checking the cacography that rampaged across the envelope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Roadside Attraction]

Ye tons of invoices, groaning shelves of incalculable legers, parchment abhorrences of rare Charles Lamb, we think not now of you; dreary piles of unhealthy-looking law-books, hypochondriacal heaps of medical experiences, plodding folios of industrious polemics, slow elaborations of learned dullness, we spare your native dust; letters unnumbered, in all stages of cacography, both physical and metaphysical, alack! most of you must slip through the meshes of our definition yet unwove; poor deciduous leaves of the forest, that, at your best, serve only -- it is yet a good purpose -- to dress the common soil of human kindness, without attaining to the praise of wreaths and chaplets ever hanging in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper] Reference