"Me as Falstaff? Short, Jewish, gay, South African me? As Shakespeare's gigantically big, rudely hetero, quintessentially English fat knight?" Anthony Sher had his doubts about taking on the part.http://bbc.in/1EUBpSv
David Beckham made peace with Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson in early 2003 after a dressing room argument left him with a cut above his eye.
Beckham described the incident at the time - in which Ferguson accidentally kicked a football boot against his face - as "just one of those things".
Ferguson said in 2003: "I have spent 29 years as a coach and what happens in the dressing room is sacrosanct. There is no problem and we move on. That is all there is to say."
See definition in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Line breaks: het¦ero
Pronunciation: /ˈhɛt(ə)rəʊ/
Definition of hetero in English:
adjective& noun ( plural heteros)
informal
Definition of heterosexual in English:
adjective
noun
Back to topheterography
n.[Hetero- + -graphy.]
That method of spelling in which the same letters represent different sounds in different words, as in the ordinary English orthography; e. g., g in get and in ginger.
(het-uh-ROG-ruh-fee)
noun
1. A spelling different from the one in current use.
2. Use of the same letter(s) to convey different sounds, for example, gh in rough and ghost.
Etymology
From Greek hetero (different) + -graphy (writing)
The idea of heterography is a recent phenomenon, relatively speaking. Earlier, when English was mainly a spoken language, it was a free-for-all, spelling-wise. Any spelling was good as long as you could make yourself understood. Each writer spelled words in his own way, trying to spell them phonetically. Shakespeare spelled his own name in various ways (Shaxspear, Shakespear, and so on).
If you read old manuscripts, you can find different spellings of a word on the same page, and sometimes even in the same sentence. Spelling wasn't something sacrosanct: if a line was too long to fit, a typesetter might simply squeeze or expand the word by altering the spelling.
If the idea of to-each-one's-own spelling for the same word sounds bizarre, consider how we practice it even today, in the only place we can: in our names. Look around you and you might find a Christina and a Cristina and a Kristina and many other permutations and combinations.
With the advent of printing in the 15th century, spelling began to become standardized. By the 19th century, most words had a single "official" spelling, as a consensus, not by the diktat of a committee.
Today if you write "definately" and someone points out that you've misspelled the word, just tell them you're a practitioner of heterography.
Usage
"A lengthy discourse on several levels of Arabic heterography leads, however, to an assertion that the manuscript's African-Arabic script is ... the opposite of a self-conscious European autobiography or slave narrative." — Allan D. Austin; African Muslims in Antebellum America; Routledge; 1997.
hétero・gràft
Gaiman’s reworking of myths and legends has resulted in plenty of gentler tales. Take “Stardust” (1999), which had earlier permutations as a comic and illustrated book with the artist Charles Vess before its release as a straightforward novel.
蓋曼對神話和傳說的改造產生了許多更溫和的故事。以《星塵》（Stardust，1999 年）為例，它在作為直截了當的小說發行之前，曾與藝術家查爾斯·維斯 (Charles Vess) 合作，將其改編為漫畫和插圖書。
permutation
noun
- each of several possible ways in which a set or number of things can be ordered or arranged."his thoughts raced ahead to fifty different permutations of what he must do"
- MATHEMATICSthe action of changing the arrangement, especially the linear order, of a set of items.
- BRITISHa selection of a specified number of matches in a football pool.
sacrosanct
Pronunciation: /ˈsakrə(ʊ)saŋ(k)t, ˈseɪk-/
Definition of sacrosanct
adjective
Derivatives
Pronunciation: /-ˈsaŋktɪti/
noun
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