orthoepy
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It is so arranged as to teach orthography and orthoepy simultaneously.
From Lee's Last Campaign by John C. Gorman
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
It is true that the pedantry of scholarship has put its sovereign veto against the practice of writing words as they are spoken, even could the orthoepy ever have been settled by an unquestioned standard.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
The orthography is according to Jack's orthoepy, for there are various spellings of the word.
From Gwen Wynn by Mayne Reid
They speak as do the natives, but write in their own character; accommodating the flexible capabilities of their alphabet to the purposes of Turkish orthoepy.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various
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