Talk:Multigraph (orthography)

Enneagraph (9 letters) in an English name
I don't think a new article deserves to be created due to this fact alone, but there is an English surname which, if pronounced in its traditional fashion (as I am reliably informed), contains an enneagraph (nonagraph?) -- 9 letters which together make a single sound. If "Featherstonehaugh" is pronounced "Fanshawe", then the enneagraph "eathersto" makes the single sound, does it not? 134.153.73.53 (talk) 13:14, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Octagraph, Nonagraph
There is a octagraph (8 letters), and nonagraph (9 letters). 87.241.189.41 (talk) 12:14, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

The name of a Georgian major city
In Roman letters, it's Mtskheta. Fairly sure that name is considered to have two syllables. Apparently, all lethers are pronounced, most contained in the first syllable. Corrections welcome! Nikevich 12:54, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

Pleograph
The combining form of ‘πλέων’ [‘pleon’] is ‘ πλέω-’ [‘pleo-’], so the Greek calque would be ‘pleograph’, not ‘pleongraph’, as the article previously had. Since ‘multigraph’ is a bilingual calque (composed of Latin ‘multi-’ and Greek ‘graph’), the monolingual neologism ‘pleograph’ would be more logical. However, the all-Greek neologism ‘polygraph’ is the term actually used in linguistics and cryptography, and the bilingual term ‘multigraph’ is the term used in typography; whereas the term ‘pleograph’ has previously apparently only been used as the name of one of the oldest movie cameras, the Pleograph. Moreover, even ‘polygraph’ itself and the terms ‘digraph’, ‘trigraph’, etc. are themselves illogically constructed from the verbal form ‘-graph’ instead of the nominalised form ‘-gram’. In any case, few modern English wordsmiths know or care enough about the distinction between Latin and Greek to avoid coining bilingual calques, and English has long had examples such as ‘appendectomy’, ‘bicycle’, ‘homosexual’, ‘monolingual’, and ‘television’. AndreasWittenstein (talk) 13:04, 19 April 2023 (UTC)