orthoepy

Noun
  1. The way a word or a language is customarily spoken (synset 107143400)
    "the pronunciation of Chinese is difficult for foreigners"; "that is the correct pronunciation"
    is a type of: language, oral communication, speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication - (language) communication by word of mouth
    subtypes: received pronunciation - the approved pronunciation of British English; originally based on the King's English as spoken at public schools and at Oxford and Cambridge Universities (and widely accepted elsewhere in Britain); until recently it was the pronunciation of English used in British broadcasting
    same as: 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 (synset 106186553)
    is a type of: phonemics, phonology - the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes

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