| allograph |
| Definition - Two or more Glyphs that are members of the same set of glyphs representing a particular grapheme. |
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Example - The f in friend and the gh in cough are two of the allographs in the set of glyphs that constitute the grapheme <f> |
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Etymology - The word derives from the Greek allos, other + graphos, writing |
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Oxford English Dictionary - Its first citation is from 1951: "We now have allomorph and morpheme, alloseme and sememe, allograph and grapheme." (R. A. Hall Jun. in Archivum Linguisticum III. 117) |