orthoepy
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It is so arranged as to teach orthography and orthoepy simultaneously.
From Lee's Last Campaign by John C. Gorman
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 R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
Many of the words in most books on orthoepy are very rarely mispronounced, and they serve only to cumber the work.
From A Manual of Pronunciation For Practical Use in Schools and Families by Otis Ashmore
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 Isaac Disraeli
In orthography I have supposed orthoepy, or just utterance of words, to be included; orthography being only the art of expressing certain sounds by proper characters.
From A Grammar of the English Tongue by Samuel Johnson
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