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prettygoodwordorthoepy (awr-THOH-uh-pee, AWR-thoh-ep-ee) - n., the customary pronunciation of a language (or regional variant); the study thereof.
Originally, when first borrowed from Greek in the 1660s, correct pronunciation, but the sort of people who would borrow it would think that their way of speaking is the proper way. In the original Greek, however, orthoépeia is the correctness of diction. Note that the word itself is pronounced in more than even the two most common ways I give. Ha, I say.
---L.
Originally, when first borrowed from Greek in the 1660s, correct pronunciation, but the sort of people who would borrow it would think that their way of speaking is the proper way. In the original Greek, however, orthoépeia is the correctness of diction. Note that the word itself is pronounced in more than even the two most common ways I give. Ha, I say.
---L.
