orthoepy

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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 Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

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

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

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

One affords a quaint definition of the combination of orthoepy with orthography, for he would teach “how to write or paint the image of man’s voice like to the life or nature.”

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

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 Disraeli, Isaac