orthoepy
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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 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
The Rig-Veda also came there, adorned with the rules of orthoepy.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan
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)
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 Disraeli, Isaac
