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.
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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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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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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