native speech
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Now I teach voice and speech to actors in a theater program in the South, and I think a lot about how people perceive the native speech varieties of this region.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2021
"In that respect, Southern speech is closer to the native speech of England," concludes Pederson, and often to Elizabethan England.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He speaks in the hortatory Emily Post style which all British novelists since Max Beerbohm seem to think is the native speech of proper Bostonians.
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He also had to tone down to a rough whisper the novel's tangy native speech to suit the ears of censors.
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This will make progress slow, but it is of more importance that figures, history, geography, and thy native speech should be well learned than that thou shouldst know a foreign tongue while so young.
From Maid Sally by Cheever, Harriet A.