orthoepy

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Let him chant the Vedas, offending at each step against the rules of orthoepy!

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan

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 Disraeli, Isaac

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

But where were we to seek for the standard of our orthoepy?

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

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 Ashmore, Otis