orthoepist

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Walker, however, who has a greater reputation as an orthoepist [sic -- KTH], teaches that, "There is a distinction in the sound of this letter, which is," says he, "in my opinion, _of no small importance_; and that is, the [distinction of] the rough and [the] smooth _r_.

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  1. noun A specialist in orthoepy, especially one of a number of 16th- and 17th-century scholars who proposed reforms of English spelling so that it would more systematically reflect pronunciation.

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  • Word of the day: orthoepist (awr-thoh-uh-pist), one who studies the pronunciation of wordsMy first post comes to you from the pages of the Oxford English Dictionary, the compendium of knowledge about the written word.
  • It is doubtful whether on the day he died, he left a more perfect orthoepist living behind him. —  The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
  • To the correct orthoepist, several persons on the stage give offence in the pronunciation of the pronoun possessive MY -- speaking it in all cases with the full open Y, as it would rhyme to _fly_, which should only be when it is put in contradistinction to _thy_ or _his_, or any other pronoun possessive: in all other cases it should be sounded like _me_. —  The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810
  • Walker, however, who has a greater reputation as an orthoepist [sic -- KTH], teaches that, "There is a distinction in the sound of this letter, which is," says he, "in my opinion, _of no small importance_; and that is, the [distinction of] the rough and [the] smooth _r_. —  The Grammar of English Grammars
 

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