orthoepy
Example Sentences
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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 Isaac Disraeli
It has a certain crude and primitive grammar, but in point of orthoepy is extremely difficult.
From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 by Ambrose Bierce
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 Isaac Disraeli
Such departures from orthoepy are only to be checked by the power of such example; but this is a power not always present, or not always of sufficient strength.
From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers
But, to one unacquainted with Spanish orthoepy, it may be observed that the “j” is pronounced as an aspirated “h”—in short, as the Greek chi—and so also is “x” in the Aztec orthography.
From Mayne Reid A Memoir of his Life by Elizabeth Reid
