It's the Word of the Day podcast for April 21st.

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You're built to win it. Today's word is orthography, spelled O-R-T-H-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y. Orthography is a noun.

It refers to the way in which words of a language are spelled,

or to the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage.

Here's the word used in a sentence from Enough is Enough,

our failed attempts to make English easier to spell by Gabe Henry.

Orman, a medieval monk, sought to bring order to

English orthography by adding more letters to words. Auguste Tibaudin, a London professor,

tried adding numbers. Our ideas for simplifying spelling have ranged from the rational to the ridiculous, to the

downright absurd, and with each whimsical solution, we seem to get further away from cognitive

stability.

The concept of orthography, a term that comes from the Greek words, orthos, meaning right or true,

and graphine, meaning

to right, was not something that really concerned English speakers until the introduction of

the printing press in England during the 15th century. From that point on, English spelling

became progressively more uniform. Our orthography has been relatively stable since the 1755

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