Associations to the word «Orthoepist»

Wiktionary

ORTHOEPIST, noun. Someone who studies the way words are pronounced
ORTHOËPIST, noun. Archaic spelling of orthoepist.

Dictionary definition

ORTHOEPIST, noun. 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).

Wise words

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark Twain