Siksha, one of the six branches of Vedas; it may be called the orthoepy of the Vedas. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
The Rig-Veda also came there, adorned with the rules of orthoepy. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
Let him chant the Vedas, offending at each step against the rules of orthoepy!. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
The attempt to teach orthoepy without much drill and practice is of little use. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of Pronunciation For Practical Use in Schools and Families] Reference
Many of the words in most books on orthoepy are very rarely mispronounced, and they serve only to cumber the work. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of Pronunciation For Practical Use in Schools and Families] Reference
And at other places again, other Brahmanas well-acquainted with the science of orthoepy were reciting mantras of other kinds. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
They speak as do the natives, but write in their own character; accommodating the flexible capabilities of their alphabet to the purposes of Turkish orthoepy. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
There is nothing belonging to the stage which demands such strict discipline as its orthoepy, because there is none in which it can so immediately and powerfully affect the public. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference
Hence the stage is looked up to as a great school, and the eminent actors are universally looked to as the best instructors in action, elocution, orthoepy, and the component parts of oratory. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference
One of the most valuable results of oral reading when systematically pursued as a school study, is the effect which it has in improving the tones of the voice for ordinary conversation and discourse, and in securing some measure of orthoepy as a fixed habit of utterance. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
Frequent practice in the accurate enunciation of the tonic elements as given above, and a habit of watchfulness established as to the orthoepy of those which are most easily obscured, in all words in which they occur, will soon secure, if not a resonant, sonorous utterance with respect to the tonic elements, at least a correct pronunciation. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
It has a certain crude and primitive grammar, but in point of orthoepy is extremely difficult. From Wordnik.com. [The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1] Reference
PROSODY comprises orthoepy, or the rules of pronunciation; and orthometry, or the laws of versification. From Wordnik.com. [A Grammar of the English Tongue] Reference
In orthography I have supposed orthoepy, or just utterance of words, to be included; orthography being only the art of expressing certain sounds by proper characters. From Wordnik.com. [A Grammar of the English Tongue] Reference
Had he pronounced his syllables correctly, accenting only the "ra" in declaration, and the "pen" in independence, his orthoepy would have been both correct and unaffected. From Wordnik.com. [The Third Reader, Designed for the Use of Primary Schools,] Reference
But then these people spoke good English -- better, perhaps, than common English nursery-maids, the greatest of their abuses in orthoepy being merely to teach a child to call its mother a "mare.". From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Europe] Reference
"Really, Miss Hamilton, I must congratulate you on the extraordinary progress your pupils make; I was not aware that you cultivated their powers of comparison in connection with the rudiments of orthoepy,". From Wordnik.com. [Inez A Tale of the Alamo] Reference
Rightly conceiving that every thing patriotic was dignified, and that to illustrate or polish his native language, was a service of real patriotism, he composed a work on the grammar and orthoepy of the Latin language. From Wordnik.com. [The Caesars] Reference
The dipththongs ui and uy are subject to the same rules of orthoepy, as are also the dipththongs ua and ue, when these two last elements are followed by the letter R. Example -- The heart of that girl is free from guile. From Wordnik.com. [The Third Reader, Designed for the Use of Primary Schools,] Reference
In this index the generic and specific names have been divided into syllables, and the place of the primary accent has been indicated, with the single object of securing a uniform pronunciation in accordance with the established rules of English orthoepy. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference
Munhatos, and Manhattoes, which are evidently unimportant variations of the same name; for our wise forefathers set little store by those niceties, either in orthography or orthoepy, which form the sole study and ambition of many learned men and women of this hypercritical age. From Wordnik.com. [Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete] Reference
The neighboring city of Jodpore, capital of the adjoining native state of Marwar, offers an even greater variety of orthoepy, for it appears in a different spelling on each of the three maps I carried around -- a railway map, a government map, and the map in Murray's Guide Book. From Wordnik.com. [Modern India] Reference
The number of people intently minding their Ps and Qs, reforming their orthoepy, practicing new discoveries in etiquette, making over their names, and in general exhibiting that activity of the amateur known as going through the motions to the end of bringing themselves up, as it were, is very noticeable in contrast with French oblivion to this kind of personal exertion. From Wordnik.com. [New York After Paris] Reference
In the practicing schools of the Normal Department there is nothing peculiar but our methods of teaching orthography and orthoepy -- here we employ analysis -- that is to say, immediately after a pupil has spelled a word, he is required to tell how many vowels and how many consonants it contains; to give the quality and quantity of every vowel; and to distinguish the characteristics of the sub-vocals and the aspirates. From Wordnik.com. [History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church] Reference
A lover of negroes, (he was not over-careful of orthography or of orthoepy;) you are a 'Union. From Wordnik.com. [Our Brother in Black: His Freedom and His Future] Reference
28 onyx opponent orchestra orchid ordeal orthoepy oxide pageant panorama pantomime papier-maché parent paresis parietal parse patent pathos patriot. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of Pronunciation For Practical Use in Schools and Families] Reference
And while this man’s orthoepy. From Wordnik.com. [Cobwebs from a Library Corner] Reference
"Bhishma continued, 'Hearing these words of Narada, Vyasa, the foremost of all persons conversant with duties and firmly devoted to Vedic recitation, became filled with joy and answered Narada, saying, -- So be it -- With his son Suka, he set himself to recite the Vedas in a loud sonorous voice, observing all the rules of orthoepy and, as it were, filling the three worlds with that sound. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
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