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Definition of Orthoepy

1. Noun. The way a word or a language is customarily spoken. "That is the correct pronunciation"

2. Noun. A term formerly used for the part of phonology that dealt with the 'correct' pronunciation of words and its relation to 'correct' orthography.

Definition of Orthoepy

1. Noun. The correct pronunciation of words. ¹

2. Noun. The study of correct pronunciation. ¹

3. Noun. (alternative spelling of orthoepy) ¹

4. Noun. (hypercorrect) (nonstandard spelling of orthoepy) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Orthoepy

1. the study of correct pronunciation [n -EPIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Orthoepy

orthodoxies orthodoxly orthodoxness orthodoxy orthodrome orthodromes orthodromic orthodromical orthodromy orthoepic

orthoepical orthoepically orthoepies orthoepist orthoepists orthoepy (current term) orthoericssonite orthoester orthoesters orthoexciton

orthoexcitons orthoferrite orthoferrites orthoferrosilite orthoferrosilites orthoform orthoformate orthoformates orthogamous orthogamy

Literary usage of Orthoepy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Language by Robert Gordon Latham (1855)
"The term orthoepy is a word derived from the Greek ortho (upright), and epos (word), signifying right pronunciation. Ortho-graphy, from ortho- and ..."

2. A Hand-book of the English Language: For the Use of Students of the by Robert Gordon Latham (1860)
"orthoepy determines words, and deals with a language as it is spoken; ... Orthography is less essential to language than orthoepy; since all languages are ..."

3. English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms ; with a by William Chauncey Fowler (1855)
"THE PRIORITY OF orthoepy. § 178. In the order of nature and time, the spoken language must exist before the written language. In the same order, ..."

4. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1894)
"... with the institutes I conduct or instruct, in professional orthoepy, as well as in every-day false syntax and other matters of immediate application. ..."

5. The Theory and Practice of Creole Grammar by J. J. Thomas (1869)
"orthoepy signifies the right pronunciation of words. ... In dealing, therefore, with the orthoepy of the Creole, a dialect framed by Africans from a ..."

6. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"A fourth sign, W, which is in form a double V, and in orthoepy as in name a double U, was still another outgrowth from the single letter added by the Greeks ..."

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