An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
ORTHOEPIST
orthoepist
(noun) a practitioner of orthoepy (especially one of the 17th or 18th century scholars who proposed to reform English spelling so it would reflect pronunciation more closely)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
orthoepist (plural orthoepists)
An expert at orthoepy: a person who studies the pronunciation of words, especially (historical) one of the orthoepists, 16th- and 17th-century linguists who tried to establish standard English pronunciations and spellings.
Hypernyms
• linguist, phonetician
Hyponyms
• dialectician
Source: Wiktionary
Or"tho*Ă«*pist, n.
Definition: One who is skilled in orthoëpy.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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