orthoepy
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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)
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
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
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 Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
Orthography addresses itself to the eye, orthoepy to the ear.
From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
