The word 'orthography' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is most often used in an academic context when referring to the rules of how words should be spelled. For example, you could say, "This course will focus on the principles of English orthography."
Now they are giving it up for the euro, a word that does not fit into the Latvian language's rigid orthography (hence the grammatically correct but, strictly speaking, unauthorised variant, eiro).Now, however, the pluses hugely outweigh the minuses (which is why Estonia joined in 2011 and Lithuania will probably do so in 2015).
But language scholars by and large think of punctuation (whether to use the Oxford comma; whether to put commas and full stops inside inverted commas or outside) as orthography or mechanics, not grammar.
But the language is now a monument that might disappear unless something is done about its orthography (spelling system for the uninitiated).
She is a vigorous campaigner for Jamaican self-esteem and one of the champions of a linguistic drive to chart a uniform phonetic orthography of the Jamaican dialect.David Heron also delights in causing a stir.
Yet the spelling, easily derived from other words*, highlights the shortcomings of English orthography.
Johnson's Greek is paltry, so a friend, Coulter George of the University of Virginia, pitched in: "The problem with καλωσορίζω (apart from orthography - it should be written as two words) is that it would literally mean 'I arrive well'.
SIR - Masha Bell disinters the excuse that poor literacy rates in Britain are the result of the "uniquely complex" orthography of English.
Countries that have sounder spelling-systems and less literacy failure have all modernised their orthographies.
Numerous publications have appeared in both orthographies.
Most of the languages are unwritten, but Nama, Naro, and Ju have practical orthographies and teaching materials.
Orthographies and vocabularies are still being standardised by piecing together different spoken dialects.
