orthoepy

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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

There is nothing belonging to the stage which demands such strict discipline as its orthoepy, because there is 78 none in which it can so immediately and powerfully affect the public.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)

And while this man’s orthoepy May not be what it should, He knows what books contain, and he “Can quote ’em pretty good.”

From Cobwebs from a Library Corner by Bangs, John Kendrick

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 Disraeli, Isaac