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orthoepist
(ôr-thōˈə-pĭst, ôrˈthō-ĕpˌĭst)
noun A specialist in orthoepy, especially one of a number of 16th- and 17th-century scholars who proposed reforms of English spelling so that it would more systematically reflect pronunciation.
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