Scrawl vs Cacography - What's the difference?
scrawl | cacography |
An irregular, possibly illegible handwriting.
A hastily, or carelessly written note etc.
To write something hastily or illegibly.
To write in an irregular or illegible manner.
To write unskilfully and inelegantly.
* Milton
Bad spelling or punctuation, especially unintuitive spellings considered as a feature of a whole language or dialect.
*1846 , Gabriel Surenne, A Practical Grammar of French Rhetoric , IV.4.1:
*:A phrase exhibits proofs of cacography , when the accents are misplaced, forgotten, or used erroneously.
*1999 , Jack Schofield, The Guardian , 25 Feb 1999:
*:In 1997, two American entrepreneurs, Robert Hoffer and Timothy Kay, formed a company called Typo.net to try to profit from Web surfers' cacography .
*2003 , Onwuchekwa Jemie (ed.), Yo' Mama! , p. 10:
*:The soul of dialect is cacography , the deliberate misspelling of words for comic effect, which is the written equivalent of the malapropism.
Poor or illegible handwriting.
*1904 , John Rexford, What Handwriting Indicates , pp. 90-91:
*:Many illegible letters is the sign of disorder, and the illegibility of Greeley's cacography has furnished numberless anecdotes.
*2002 , Mil Millington, The Guardian , 29 Jun 2002:
*:Germans write a "1" so it's easy to confuse it with a "7": mathematics and cacography can leave Margret and I not speaking to each other for a week.
*2010 , Martin L. Buxbaum, Negotiations with the Sniper: Book One , p. 63:
*:I don't even recognize the handwriting – kind of a scrawled, almost illegible cacography with the letters slanting haphazardly in all directions.
As nouns the difference between scrawl and cacography
is that scrawl is an irregular, possibly illegible handwriting while cacography is bad spelling or punctuation, especially unintuitive spellings considered as a feature of a whole language or dialect.As a verb scrawl
is to write something hastily or illegibly or scrawl can be .scrawl
English
Etymology 1
Possibly (etyl)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- Though with a golden pen you scrawl .