orthoepy

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The design of Mulcaster to regulate orthography by orthoepy was revived so late as in 1701, in a curious work, under the title of “Practical Phonography,” by John Jones, M.D.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

The orthography is according to Jack’s orthoepy, for there are various spellings of the word.

From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Reid, Mayne

But then these people spoke good English—better, perhaps, than common English nursery-maids, the greatest of their abuses in orthoepy being merely to teach a child to call its mother a "mare."

From Recollections of Europe by Cooper, James Fenimore

This unsettled state of our orthography, and what it often depended on, our orthoepy, was an inconvenience detected even at a very early period.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

And while this man’s orthoepy May not be what it should, He knows what books contain, and he “Can quote ’em pretty good.”

From Cobwebs from a Library Corner by Bangs, John Kendrick