† phonotypistn.
Obsolete. rare.
An advocate or user of phonotypy.
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1849 Southern Literary Messenger 15 192/1 Some who regard him as in league with those miscreants, the Phonotypists, to destroy the symmetry and beauty of the language.
1850 Fonetic Jrnl. 74/1 The Spelling Reform which Phonographers and Phonotypists are endeavouring to effect, would confer incalculable benefits on society.
1878 Littell's Living Age 13 Apr. 104/1 The phonotypists make very light of diligently confounding rain, rein, reign, under a single spelling.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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