Cacography
The term cacography , of the Greek kakos (ugly) and graphein (to write), indicates a faulty Orthographe or a bad style.
In the teaching field, cacography referred with the use of texts into which spelling errors were deliberately introduced in order to involve the pupils to correct them. This method of teaching of the orthography appeared in France in 1803 with the Recueil of sentences in which one intentionally violated the orthography of the words of Jean-Etienne-Judith Forestier Boinvilliers. As one reproached him for accustoming the pupils to memorize faulty forms, and for thus leading to an opposite effect of that which was continued, it was abandoned in the Années 1850 to be replaced by collections of Dictée S.
At the end of the 20th century, the cacography became in France a Word game consisting in writing a sentence in which each word must be badly spelled, in the possible manner more amusing.
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