What's the difference between heterographic and misspelt?

Heterographic


Definition:

  • (a.) Employing the same letters to represent different sounds in different words or syllables; -- said of methods of spelling; as, the ordinary English orthography is heterographic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tissue valves available in the United States are the Carpentier-Edwards and Hancock porcine heterograph valves.

Misspelt


Definition:

  • () of Misspell

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She had been enraged by a handwritten letter from Brown which misspelt her name, and appeared to contain numerous other spelling errors.
  • (2) And the misspelt banners of news are often exciting, but other channels catch up fast.
  • (3) Barmy scale, wonky lines, clashing colours, misspelt words (well, it makes them fit) all put together to create an irresistible command to buy, eat or do everything that the seaside has to offer.
  • (4) When the paperwork was returned, his name was misspelt.
  • (5) Nonetheless, Bin Laden was now on the radar of security services, albeit if his name was often misspelt and his role described as "financier".
  • (6) Today the Sun is embroiled in a new row with Downing Street after publishing the transcript of a phone call Brown made to Jacqui Janes, the mother of a British soldier who died in Afghanistan last month, trying to placate her over his handwritten letter of condolence that misspelt her name.
  • (7) Photograph: Photograph: Egyptian ministry of antiquities A misspelt version of the forgotten king's name has been found once before, but Wegner said this was the first time the team had heard of the pharaoh.
  • (8) In the original, James Moorehead's name was misspelt.
  • (9) The first, obviously, is whether that "Butt…" is a misspelt preposition at the beginning of an uncompleted sentence or a reference to this nation's one-time leader's backside.
  • (10) You'll still have autocomplete (to turn 'new hand on deck' to ' new Han on deck ') but now there's no excuses for misspelt emails.
  • (11) Earlier this week the Sun misspelt Janes's surname as "Jones" in an online article on the My Sun section of the newspaper's website.
  • (12) Name me one red-blooded man who wouldn't want to validate his neediness by paying a stranger of undetermined gender to send him hollow, misspelt platitudes on the internet.
  • (13) He also described a family holiday on one of its best-known beaches, but misspelt the name: he enjoyed “holidays on the coast at Holcombe”.
  • (14) Their Chinese-made shoulder badges, it was recently noticed after five years, misspelt Oregon as Oregdn.
  • (15) What he says may be unhinged, misspelt and ungrammatical, and it may make many recoil, but by claiming his is a “real” voice, where all else is mediated and therefore distorted, is working for him strategically.
  • (16) The phone call – as described by Brown – took place after the Sun printed a story about the death of a soldier and his mother's complaints that a handwritten letter of condolence from the then prime minister misspelt her son's name.
  • (17) The Sun's new political editor is said to have remonstrated with his editors on Sunday over whether to go hard on the prime minister's misspelt letter to the grieving mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan.
  • (18) Clearly nothing important is happening in the UK today, as Twitter splutters into life amid mock outrage or fully fledged mirth over Ed Miliband's misspelt Blockbusters tweet.
  • (19) Netjes was not initially thought to be involved in the case because her name was misspelt on the charge-sheet, and because she has never worked for al-Jazeera.
  • (20) Gordon Brown was drawn into a politically embarrassing argument over equipment shortages in Afghanistan as he tried to placate the mother of a dead serviceman over his handwritten letter of condolence that misspelt her name.

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