orthoepist

orthoepist
or·tho·e·pist (ôr-thōʹə-pĭst, ôrʹthō-ĕp'ĭst) n.
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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