The Comic English Grammar: A New And Facetious Introduction To The English Tongue

CHAPTER I. OF THE NATURE OF THE LETTERS, AND OF A COMIC ALPHABET.

Orthography is like a schoolmaster, or instructor of youth. It teaches us the nature and powers of letters and the right method of spelling words.

Comic Orthography teaches us the oddity and absurdities of _letters_, and the wrong method of spelling words. The following is an example of Comic Orthography:--