The Orthoëpist : A Pronouncing Manual.
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1891. Seventeenth edition. Publisher's full green cloth, decoratively stamped in black and gilt. Lightly rubbed extremities with touches of wear, front fly torn out, bookshop sticker rear pastedown, still very good. Item #243981
HOW DO YOU SAY...?
Are you always tripping over your pronunciation? Do words like ophthalmy or gubernatorial have your knees shaking? Well, Alfred Ayres, the pseudonym of Thomas Embly Osmun, is here to meet all your elocution needs. Ayres' pronunciation guides were popularized throughout the late nineteenth century, with this seventeenth edition of The Orthoëpist containing about 4,500 commonly mispronounced words and famous names.
Price: $75.00