orthoepy

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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)

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

Let him chant the Vedas, offending at each step against the rules of orthoepy!

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan

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

It has a certain crude and primitive grammar, but in point of orthoepy is extremely difficult.

From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 by Bierce, Ambrose