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*ë*pist, n.

Definition: One who is skilled in orthoëpy.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition