Orthography addresses itself to the eye, orthoepy to the ear.
Orthoepy determines words, and deals with a language as it is spoken; orthography determines the correct spelling of words, and deals with a language as it is written.
Orthoepy deals with the articulate sounds that constitute syllables and words; orthography treats of the signs by which such articulate sounds are expressed in writing.
Orthoepy differs from orthography by determining how words are spoken, whereas orthography decides how they are spelt.
Orthoepy determines the correct pronunciation of words, and deals with a language as it is spoken; orthography determines the correct spelling of words, and deals with a language as it is written.
Mr. Pitman, of Bath, is likely to add to his claims as an orthographist by being engaged in the attempt to determine, inductively, the orthoepy of a certain number of doubtful words.
In matters of orthoepy it is the usual custom to appeal to one of the following standards.
The Vedas were always chanted melodiously, the science of Orthoepy was cultivated by the Rishis with great care.
Orthoepy and is one of the Angas (limbs) of the Vedas.
The study of orthoepy was held in such high esteem by the accent Greeks, and their delicate ears were so offended by any violation of its rules, that if an orator mispronounced a single word, the entire audience immediately hissed him.
She paid special attention to the correct orthoepy of words, and insisted upon pupils' making use of their dictionaries whenever a word occurred with which they were not familiar.
She requested one of the pupils to look for the orthoepy of a word which occurred in the lesson.
The attempt to teach orthoepy without much drill and practice is of little use.
Many of the words in most books onorthoepy are very rarely mispronounced, and they serve only to cumber the work.
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 orthoepyever have been settled by an unquestioned standard.
About the same period as Layamon's version of Wace, we have a very original attempt of a writer, in those days of capricious pronunciation, to convey to the reader the orthoepy by regulating the orthography.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "orthoepy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: gradation; mutation; phonetics; phonology
