orthoepy
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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 Isaac Disraeli
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 R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
In orthography I have supposed orthoepy, or just utterance of words, to be included; orthography being only the art of expressing certain sounds by proper characters.
From A Grammar of the English Tongue by Samuel Johnson
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 Isaac Disraeli
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
