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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

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

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

I am also considering a volume of verse, much of which will be cast in my native speech, that very dark oracular medium: I suppose this is a folly, but what then?

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson




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