heterogram, not in OED

[Mark Mandel]

I like "xenogram". It's more explicit (if you know the etymology, which you
should if you have any reason to use it). Thanks.

m a m

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 6:18 AM, Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:

> Quoting Mark Mandel <thnidu at GMAIL.COM>:
>
> > I found this term in, I think, Windfuhr's _Persian Grammar_ (Mouton,
> 1979,
> > ISBN 90 279 7774 2), and couldn't find it in OED. ~1600 raw googits, no
> help
> > on the first page of them, which mostly define it as a word in which no
> > letter occurs more than once. Adding "Persian" to the search brought up
> > this:
> >
> > http://www.iranica.com/newsite/articles/unicode/v12f6/v12f6039.html
> >
> > A particular type of ideogram or logogram commonly found in the cuneiform
> > scripts of the ancient Near East is that which is sometimes referred to
> as a
> > "heterogram" (from Greek heteros "other"). The term refers to a graph
> > borrowed from another language (in which it may have been either
> ideographic
> > or phonetic), ...
>
> A related term I've read in recent years: xenogram.
>
> SG
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