Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Informally, an ography is a field of study or academic discipline ending in the suffix -ography. The word ography is therefore a back-formation from the names of these disciplines. Such words are formed from Greek or Latin roots with the terminal -graphy derived from the Greek verb γραφειν (graphein), to write. The word ography is thus misleading as the 'o' is actually part of the word stem that receives the -graphy ending. For example, the bio part of biography stems from Greek βιος (bios), life. This is why some of the words do not end in -ography (such as calligraphy). Some non-study ographies are: please add examples of non-study ographies to this list Autobiography, the biography of a person written by that person Bibliography, a list of writings used or considered by an author in preparing a particular work Biography, an account of a person's life Calligraphy, the art of fine handwriting Choreography, the art of creating and arranging dances or ballets Photography, the art, practice, or occupation of taking and printing photographs Tasseography, the art of reading tea leaves Pornography, please add more examples of real fields of study ending with -ography to this list Areography, the study of the physical features of the planet Mars Cartography, the study and making of maps Demography, the study of the characteristics of human populations, such as size, growth, density, distribution, and vital statistics Geography, the study of spatial relationships on the Earth's surface Hagiography, the study of saints Historiography, the study of the study of history Oceanography, the exploration and scientific study of the ocean and its phenomena Oreography, the science and study of mountains See also: isms ologies This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.