orthoepy

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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

It is so arranged as to teach orthography and orthoepy simultaneously.

From Lee's Last Campaign by Gorman, John C.

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

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

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 Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)

We may smile at these repeated attempts of the learned English, in their inventions of alphabets, to establish the correspondence of pronunciation with orthography, and at their vowelly conceits to melodise our orthoepy.

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