Editing Orthoepy (section)

==Overview==
In [[English grammar]], orthoepy is the study of correct pronunciation prescribed for [[Standard English]]. This originally was understood to mean [[Received Pronunciation]] specifically, but other standards have emerged and been accepted since the early 20th century (e.g., [[General American]], [[General Australian]]).{{citation needed|date=April 2017}}

In ancient Greek, ὀρθοέπεια ''orthoepeia'' had the wider sense of  "correct [[poetic diction|diction]]" (cf. [[A Greek-English Lexicon|LSJ]] ad loc., or the etymology in the OED), referencing correct pronunciation not just of individual words but also of entire passages, especially poetry, along with the distinction of good poetry vs. bad poetry. The archaic English term for this subject is '''orthology''', and in this sense its opposite is ''[[solecism]]''.  The study of orthoepeia by the [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[sophist]]s of the 5th century BCE, especially [[Prodicus]] (c. 396 BCE) and [[Protagoras]], also included proto-[[logic]]al concepts.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}}