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Spelling dictionaries have a special function closely connected with orthography. One has to distinguish between orthography and graphematics: graphematics concerns the internal writing system, constitutes part of the grammatical system, and supplies grammatical structured writings; orthography prescribes how to spell a certain unit, and is governed by external rules.
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