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Orthoepy Moderate

Orthoepy has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

the way a word or a language is customarily spoken

"the pronunciation of Chinese is difficult for foreigners"

"that is the correct pronunciation"

2

a term formerly used for the part of phonology that dealt with the `correct' pronunciation of words and its relation to `correct' orthography

3

Synonym of phonology: the study of pronunciation.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
speech phonology
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
Received Pronunciation
Rhyming Words
weepy peepy seepy bleepy sleepy sheepy sweepy steepy creepy cacoepy courtepy unsleepy get sleepy feel sleepy creepy peepy being sleepy getting sleepy
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