orthoepy
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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 James Fenimore Cooper
They speak as do the natives, but write in their own character; accommodating the flexible capabilities of their alphabet to the purposes of Turkish orthoepy.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various
In orthography I have supposed orthoepy, or just utterance of words, to be included; orthography being only the art of expressing certain sounds by proper characters.
From A Grammar of the English Tongue by Samuel Johnson
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 Isaac Disraeli
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 Isaac Disraeli
