They were taught oratory, recitation, and orthoepy.
It has a certain crude and primitive grammar, but in point of orthoepy is extremely difficult.
Its exercises recognize the laws of association, and provide a systematic drill in orthography, orthoepy, word-building, word-analysis, and other phases of word-study.
The attempt to teach orthoepy without much drill and practice is of little use.
What orthoepy could replace lines like these?
I had myself conceived the idea of presenting the words untrammeled with explanation of the orthoepy, or marks of accent; but the form was not decided upon.
