#orthoepy

[cyber-corp]

When I was about 3-4 years old I asked my mum at the shops if I could have some candy.

My mum politely said something along the lines of “That’s the American word, try using the proper word instead!”

This fucked up my speech patterns royally because I now pronounce words like “dance” and “chance” with a silly sounding “arn” sound.

All because I instead of asking for lollies, I asked for “carndy”.

Cheers mum.

[5wordsaday]

orthoepy (n.)

the study of correct pronunciation, customary pronunciation

[i-have-a-booner]

Growing up in north jersey has led me to pronounce “vagina” the same way trump says “China” for the first 10 years of my life.

[studyradius]

The story so far: Russian language Unified State Exam needs you for their army---- how do you strike on mobile//// to memorize the 500 words list of correct pronunciations.

I decided to reshape the list into sentences where words are grammatically connected so it would be easier to learn everything by heart.

And also a new tiny colourful notepad and a set of gel pens. I think bright colours could stimulate/arouse my brain? Have read something like that.

[renerdssanceman]

Today I learned about the word "orthoepy" which means correct pronunciation, given specific context. This, in and of itself, is not particularly interesting. What's interesting about it is that there is no agreed-upon pronunciation for it. According to Wikipedia, "the OED recognizes the variants /ˈɔːθəʊˌiːpi/, /ˈɔːθəʊˌɛpi/, /ˈɔːθəʊɨpi/, /ɔːˈθəʊɨpi/ for British English and /ɔrˈθoʊəpi/ for American English. The tetrasyllabic pronunciation is sometimes indicated with a diaresis, orthoëpy."

Apologies if you can't read IPA.

[maryammonster]

Hi Leslie!!!! It's so lame that I'm doing this on tumblr, but happy birthday!!!!! I couldn't ask for a better godsister, cousin and best friend and also we need to hang out soon bc I'm going to make you brownies again. Also your pink hair is perfect and I'm dead. Happy birthday and ilysm!!!!

aw thank you so much sarah that means so much to me!

[peoplewhocomealive]

Orthoepy and Cacoepy

Orthoepy means the doctrine of correct pronunciation within a specific oral tradition. The term is from the Greek orthos "correct" and epos "speech." The antonym is cacoepy "bad or wrong pronunciation."

In English grammar, orthoepy is the study of correct pronunciation prescribed for Standard English.

In ancient Greek, orthoepeia had the wider sense of "correct diction," i.e. the correct pronunciation not just of individual words but of entire passages, especially of poetry, and the distinction of good poetry vs. bad poetry; the archaic English term for this subject is orthology, and in this sense its opposite is solecism. The study of orthoepeia by the Greek sophists of the 5th century BC, especially Prodicus (c. 396 BC) and Protagoras, also included proto-logical concepts.

[irrepat]

your blog is just pERFECT AND I WANT TO REBLOG EVERYTHING FROM IT

OH MY GOD! Thank you so much, lovely! Feel free to reblog everything you want!!