orthoepy
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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
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 John Kendrick Bangs
I had myself conceived the idea of presenting the words untrammeled with explanation of the orthoepy, or marks of accent; but the form was not decided upon.
From Every-Day Errors of Speech by L. P. Meredith
The design of Mulcaster to regulate orthography by orthoepy was revived so late as in 1701, in a curious work, under the title of “Practical Phonography,” by John Jones, M.D.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
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 Isaac Disraeli
