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orthoepy
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As a noun, orthoepy means accepted or customary pronunciation.
Meanings of orthoepy
3 meaningsnoun
Accepted or customary pronunciation.
The way a word or a language is customarily spoken
“the pronunciation of Chinese is difficult for foreigners”
“that is the correct pronunciation”
Similar: pronunciationA term formerly used for the part of phonology that dealt with the ‘correct’ pronunciation of words and its relation to ‘correct’ orthography
Synonym of phonology: the study of pronunciation.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).
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noun: the way a word or a language is customarily spoken
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