orthoepy

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Orthography addresses itself to the eye, orthoepy to the ear.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

Hence the stage is looked up to as a great school, and the eminent actors are universally looked to as the best instructors in action, elocution, orthoepy, and the component parts of oratory.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)

The attempt to teach orthoepy without much drill and practice is of little use.

From A Manual of Pronunciation For Practical Use in Schools and Families by Ashmore, Otis

They speak as do the natives, but write in their own character; accommodating the flexible capabilities of their alphabet to the purposes of Turkish orthoepy.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various

Orthography is less essential to language than orthoepy; since all languages are spoken, whilst but a few languages are written.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)