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
"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
Moto and Ichi held for a moment a chattering interchange of their native speech.
From Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Springer, Norman
