a. (UN-1 7.)
1857. Ld. Campbell, Chief Justices, III. xlviii. 153. A word of two syllables without any unphonetic consonants.
1879. Encycl. Brit., IX. 634/2. French orthography is now quite as traditional and unphonetic as English.
1888. [see next].
Hence Unphoneticness.
1858. Sweet, Hist. Eng. Sounds, 68. Unphoneticness is mainly the result of the retention of originally phonetic spellings after they have become unphonetic through sound-change.
