NOUN
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the way a word or a language is customarily spoken
that is the correct pronunciation
the pronunciation of Chinese is difficult for foreigners - a term formerly used for the part of phonology that dealt with the `correct' pronunciation of words and its relation to `correct' orthography
How To Use orthoepy In A Sentence
- The name of the organization created to further Basic, the Orthological Institute, echoes such terms as orthodoxy, orthography, and orthoepy.
- According to Herodian - the ancient authority on orthoepy - the word should be pronounced as proparoxytone.
- Some letters and combinations of letters depend in their orthoepy upon the etymology of the word.
