The term is from the Greek ὀρθοέπεια orthoepeia, from ὀρθός orthos ('correct') and ἔπος epos ('speech').
Warman states on page 5: "Words possess three special characteristics: They have their Eye-life—Orthography.
As with Warman's book, the purpose of this article is "to deal exclusively with the ear-life, or orthoëpy".
[citation needed] In ancient Greek, ὀρθοέπεια orthoepeia had the wider sense of "correct diction" (cf.
The archaic English term for this subject is orthology, and in this sense its opposite is solecism.