A Word A Day —orthoepy

This week’s theme: Words about words and language.

orthoepy (or-THO-uh-pee, OR-tho-ep-ee) noun

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[Via Latin from Greek ortho- (correct) + epos (word), ultimately from the Indo-European root wekw- (to speak) that also gave us voice, vowel,
vouch, vocation, evoke, revoke, advocate, and epic.]

Our resident orthoepist is Stuti Garg whose voice you hear in the pronunciation of the daily words.

Today’s word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=orthoepy

-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

  “‘Splash a little guzzelean,’ the crowd muttered. ‘Gas-o-lean,’ shouted an angry Nikitia Ivanich from above. ‘Is it really all that difficult to assimilate orthoepy?’”
   Tatyana Tolstaya (translated by Jamey Gambrell); The Slynx; Houghton Mifflin; 2003.

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It is also a victory to know when to retreat. -Erno Paasilinna, essayist and journalist (1935-2000)

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