phonetistn.
/ˈfəʊnətɪst/, U.S. /ˈfoʊnədəst/ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > [noun] > phonetic transcription > phonetic spelling > advocate or user of
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1845 Phonotypic Jrnl. 4 120 The Phonetist..is written in the simplest style, in order that the youngest phonographer of the Rutherglen society may be able to read it.
1875 N. Amer. Rev. 120 475 We do not remember ever to have seen the case of the phonetists so happily and strongly put.
1878 J. A. H. Murray in Encycl. Brit. VIII. 396/1 The author of the Ormulum was a phonetist, and employed a special spelling of his own to represent not only the quality but the quantities of vowels and consonants.
2. An expert in or student of phonetics; = phonetician n. 2.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > [noun] > person
orthoepist1640
phonologist1818
phonetician1845
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phonologer1864
phoneticist1893
1862 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 7 353 The ancient Sanskrit c and j can hardly have been so distinctly compound sounds as our ch and j.., or they would have been analyzed and described as such by the phonetists.
1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. iv. 73 The phonetist is never able to put himself in an ‘à priori’ position.
1952 Eng. Hist. Rev. 67 598 The well-informed notes on not only the spelling but the pronunciation of the name should prove of considerable value to philologists and phonetists.
1993 Bulletin (Sydney) 16 Mar. 92/3 (heading) A Shavian phonetist.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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