The learned word for correct pronunciation is orthoepy, which is itself kinda tough to pronounce. It looks like both orTHOepy and ORtho-epy are accepted.
Some people’ve spelt it with an umlaut, orthoëpy. But that’s deprecated.
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January 9th, 2005 at 3:38 pm
He who spelt it dealt it.
January 9th, 2005 at 3:38 pm
He who spelt it dealt it.
January 9th, 2005 at 3:39 pm
He who spelt it dealt it.
March 20th, 2005 at 3:47 pm
i’d like to see some orthoposting with orthofrequency around here.
September 7th, 2006 at 2:02 pm
Yes, orthoëpy is quite often spelled with those two dots above the e. But even though the two dots appear identical to an umlaut, they are in fact a different symbol called a diæresis (pronounced
die-ERR-uh-siss).
Unlike the umlaut, the diæresis is used (over the second vowel of two adjacent ones) to indicate that thes two vowels lie in separate syllables.