orthoepy
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There is nothing belonging to the stage which demands such strict discipline as its orthoepy, because there is 78 none in which it can so immediately and powerfully affect the public.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
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 Ambrose Bierce
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
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 Isaac Disraeli
In this case it is opposed to orthoepy, orthography, syntax, and the other parts of grammar.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
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