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

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

He also had to tone down to a rough whisper the novel's tangy native speech to suit the ears of censors.

From Time Magazine Archive

"In that respect, Southern speech is closer to the native speech of England," concludes Pederson, and often to Elizabethan England.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then it was that the man Carlo burst into a tirade in his native speech, and under cover of his loud talk Ruth motioned her chum to creep back up the stairway, and she followed.

From Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace by Emerson, Alice B.