orthoepy

Example Sentences

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But then these people spoke good English—better, perhaps, than common English nursery-maids, the greatest of their abuses in orthoepy being merely to teach a child to call its mother a "mare."

From Recollections of Europe by Cooper, James Fenimore

The orthography is according to Jack's orthoepy, for there are various spellings of the word.

From Gwen Wynn by Reid, Mayne

In this case it is opposed to orthoepy, orthography, syntax, and the other parts of grammar.

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

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

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