Meaning of "orthoepist" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF ORTHOEPIST

orthoepist  [ɔːˈθəʊɪˌpɪst]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ORTHOEPIST

Orthoepist is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ORTHOEPIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Orthoepy

Orthoepy means the doctrine of correct pronunciation within a specific oral tradition. The term is from the Greek ὀρθοέπεια, from ὀρθός orthos "correct" and ἔπος epos "speech." The antonym is cacoepy "bad or wrong pronunciation". The pronunciation of the word orthoepy itself varies widely; the OED recognizes the variants /ˈɔːθəʊˌiːpi/, /ˈɔːθəʊˌɛpi/, /ˈɔːθəʊɨpi/, /ɔːˈθəʊɨpi/ for British English and /ɔrˈθoʊəpi/ for American English. The tetrasyllabic pronunciation is sometimes indicated with a diaresis, orthoëpy. In English grammar, orthoepy is the study of correct pronunciation prescribed for Standard English. This is Received Pronunciation specifically, but other standards have emerged since the early 20th century. In ancient Greek, ὀρθοέπεια orthoepeia had the wider sense of "correct diction", i.e. the correct pronunciation not just of individual words but of entire passages, especially of poetry, and the distinction of good poetry vs. bad poetry; the archaic English term for this subject is orthology, and in this sense its opposite is solecism.

Definition of orthoepist in the English dictionary

The definition of orthoepist in the dictionary is one who is skilled in orthoepy.

TRANSLATION OF ORTHOEPIST

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ORTHOEPIST»

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The Orthoëpist: a Pronouncing Manual Containing about Four ...

THE. ORTHOEPIST. A. This vowel is pronounced a as a letter, but a as a word, except when emphatic. Then it has its full name sound. Thus : I said Cleveland is a large town, not the large town of Ohio. In the languages of Continental Europe it  ...

Alfred Ayres, 1895

General Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the ...

The foregoing are instances, among others, in which that celebrated orthoepist is inconsistent with himself ; but, in examples like the following, it is strongly to be presumed that he is erroneous upon principle, and his misconceptions arc ...

Stephen Jones, 1828

English Pronunciation

To use for this purpose the symbols of the I.P.A. is an unsatisfactory and dangerous process, for even when it is reasonably certain that each of the orthoepist's letters has only one value (a state of affairs that does not always apply) it involves ...

Eric John Dobson, 1957

Survey of the sources

To use for this purpose the symbols of the I.P.A. is an unsatisfactory and dangerous process, for even when it is reasonably certain that each of the orthoepist's letters has only one value (a state of afiairs that does not always apply) it involves ...

Eric John Dobson, 1957

Literary News

$1.) —Philadelphia Telegraph. The Orthoepist. This little book was made for those who aim to have their practice in speaking English conform to the most approved orthogpical usage. This aim has always been esteemed a worthy ambition, ...

L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt, 1894

Appleton's Literary Bulletin

"One of the neatest and most accurate pocket manuals on pronunciation is 'The Orthoepist,* by Alfred Ayres. It seems almost impossible to secure uniformity in pronunciation. It is the study of a life to master that of our tongue. The mere labor of ...

‎1882

Appletons' Home Books ...

ISmo, cloth, extra, $1.00. 14 One of the neatest and most Accurate pocket manuals on pronunciation is ' The Orthoepist,' by Alfred Ayres. The little book ought to be ou every library-table." — A\ T. V1>ritlian Advucate.

Alexander F. Oakey, Ella Rodman Church, Janet Emily Ruutz-Rees, 1884

Home Occupations

Orthoepist: A Pronouncing Manual, containing about Three Thousand Five Hundred Words, including a Considerable Number of the Names of Foreign Authors, Artists, etc., that are often mispronounced. By Alfred* Ayres. 18mo, cloth, extra ...

Janet Emily Ruutz-Rees, 1883

The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the ...

He devoted himself to orthoepy and the art of elocution. His works include: The Verbalist (1881), The Mentor (1884), The Essentials of Elocution (1886) and Acting and Actors: Elocution and Elocutionists (1903).

Alfred Ayres, 2009

The Oxford History of English

In particular, he observes that 'Crucially, no orthoepist before Hodges (1644) reports anything interpretable as a central vowel in the relevant positions; most report something quite different'. 9 As in Figure 6.1, Hodges' transcriptions in his ...

Lynda Mugglestone, 2006