orthoepist
An expert at orthoepy: a person who studies the pronunciation of words, especially one…An expert at orthoepy: a person who studies the pronunciation of words, especially (historical) one of the orthoepists, 16th- and 17th-century linguists who tried to establish standard English pronunciations and spellings.
Meaning
1 sensesAn expert at orthoepy: a person who studies the pronunciation of words, especially (historical) one of the orthoepists, 16th- and 17th-century linguists who tried to establish standard English pronunciations and spellings.
a practitioner of orthoepy (especially one of the 17th or 18th century scholars who proposed to reform English spelling so it would reflect pronunciation more closely)
Forms
plural: orthoepists| Singular | orthoepist |
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Word family
2 related wordsSee also
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