Oral spelling, the advantage of, to learners.
Order of things or events, the natural, PREC. directing the observance of, in the use of lang.
Orders of verse, see Verse.
Ordinal numeral, (see Numerals.)
—Ordinal adjectives may qualify card. numbers; cannot properly be
qualified by do.
Orthoëpy, see Pronunciation.
ORTHOGRAPHY
—Orthography, of what treats
—difficulties attending it in Eng.
—DR. JOHNSON'S improvements in
—DR. WEBSTER'S do., in a different direction
—ignorance of, with respect to any word used, what betokens in the
user (See also Spelling.) Orthography, figures of, MIMESIS and
ARCHAISM
—its substantive or pronominal character; (with one.) how classed by
some; may be preceded by the articles
—requires than before the latter term of an exclusive comparison;
yet sometimes perhaps better takes the prep. besides. Each other one
an other, import and just application of,
—misapplication of, frequent in books,
—DR. WEBST. erron. explanation of other, as "a correlative to
each,"
—One and other, frequently used as terms relative and partitive,
appar. demanding a plur. form,
—An other, in stead of another. Somehow or other, somewhere or
other, how other is to be disposed of.
Ought, principal verb, and not auxiliary, as called by MURR. et al., —originally part of the verb to OWE; now used as defec. verb, —its tense, as limited by the infin. which follows.
Ourself, anomalous form peculiar to the regal style,
—peculiar construc. of.
Own, its origin and import; its class and construc.,
—strangely called a noun by DR. JOH.