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Orthoepist

//ɔːˈθəʊɪˌpɪst// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An expert at orthoepy: a person who studies the pronunciation of words, especially (historical) one of the orthoepists, 16th- and 17th-century linguists who tried to establish standard English pronunciations and spellings.
  2. 2
    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) wordnet

Etymology

From orthoepy + -ist.

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