单词 | orthoepist |
释义 | orthoepist (once / 513884 pages) n WORD FAMILY orthoepist: orthoepists+/orthoepy: orthoepist USAGE EXAMPLESThey whose eyes have run over Sheridan, Walker, and other orthoepists, must often have smiled at their arbitrary disfigurements of the English language. Disraeli, Isaac, Amenities of Literature—Consisting...(2011) It is doubtful whether on the day he died, he left a more perfect orthoepist living behind him. Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen), The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic C...(2010) If "The Verbalist" receive as kindly a welcome as its companion volume, "The Orthoëpist," has received, I shall be content. Osmun, Thomas Embly, The Verbalist—A Manual Devoted to...(2010) n 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) Hyper phonologist a specialist in phonology |
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