orthoepy
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The Rig-Veda also came there, adorned with the rules of orthoepy.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
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 James Fenimore Cooper
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 S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
Such departures from orthoepy are only to be checked by the power of such example; but this is a power not always present, or not always of sufficient strength.
From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers
But, to one unacquainted with Spanish orthoepy, it may be observed that the “j” is pronounced as an aspirated “h”—in short, as the Greek chi—and so also is “x” in the Aztec orthography.
From Mayne Reid A Memoir of his Life by Elizabeth Reid
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