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Quotes About Enunciation

He speaks with the clear enunciation and ready eloquence of his race, and uses his clear, pleasant-toned voice with practised effect.
~ Brenda Niall
Akthent on thee latht thyllable.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
The Englishman loves to roll his tongue around the word, 'extraordinary'. It so pleases him that he is reluctant to finish the sound which goes on into harmonics and overtones. The North American publisher is likewise inclined.
~ R. I. Fitzhenry
The female put her hands on her hips. "Just my luck. I get mugged by Emily Post." "Emily who?" He narrowed his eyes. "And I did not mug you." "Then why do you have all my shit." As she drew out the enunciation on that last word, something unfamiliar woke up in the back of his brain.
~ J.R. Ward
It is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril.
~ Craig Brown
Saying certain letters without moving my mouth is tough... like B, P and W, you know.
~ Darci Lynne Farmer
Peter Piper pecked a peck of pick of peck of pickled pepper.
~ James Joyce
Their throat muscles shifted sharply when they spoke, as if separately manufacturing each word.
~ Walter Kirn
Galm's tone was reserved, each of his words precisely enunciated, almost as if it required extra concentration for him to speak. He was thousands of years old, and I wondered if he was so ancient and powerful that he sometimes had difficulty remembering simple things, like how to use language.
~ Tim Waggoner
The very act of enunciating the most pessimistic system attests to a fundamental optimism and hope for progress beyond the status quo. Though the good may be impossible to realize, it is also impossible to abandon entirely. The production of knowledge itself points, often despite itself, toward a better future.
~ Todd McGowan
He scattered his aitches as a fountain its sprays in a strong wind. He was very earnest.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
He spoke as if he held marbles in his mouth. 'Más o menos'--more or less--came out as 'maomay.' He was on a low-consonant diet, feasting on vowels
~ Unknown
She is trying to convince me that she never does this and is not that type of girl. It was difficult for me to understand. Her enunciation wasn't very good with my dick in her mouth.
~ Tucker Max
It was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly.
~ Robert Benchley
The theoretical recognition of the split-space of enunciation may open the way to conceptualising an international culture, based not on the exoticism of multiculturalism or the diversity of cultures, but on the inscription and articulation of culture's hybridity. It is the inbetween space that carries the burden of the meaning of culture, and by exploring this Third Space, we may elude the politics of polarity and emerge as the others of our selves.
~ Unknown
The great laws of the moral world do not vary, however different, under different dispensations, may be the authoritative enunciation of truth, or the means of propagating and defending it.
~ Unknown
The only way a ventriloquist speaks differently is that he forgoes using his or her lips, and learns to reproduce sounds using the tongue, upper palate, and teeth only. Those 'difficult' letters are B, F, M, P, V, W, and Y.
~ Jeff Dunham
You speak with warm marbles in your mouth. You have an Indian accent
~ Yann Martel
In speech he stretched out his vowel sounds to give his mouth a rest before the next consonant.
~ Diane Setterfield
Don't talk too fast, you will trip on your words.
~ Unknown
I have found that, in the African American oral tradition, if the words are enunciated eloquently enough, no one examines the meaning for definitive truth.
~ Mat Johnson
I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.
~ Maureen O'Hara
The Most Difficult Tongue Twister EXPERTS AGREE. –courtesy of F. J., St. Louis, Missouri Theophilus Thistle, the thistle-sifter, sifted a sieve of unsifted thistles. If Theophilus Thistle, the thistle-sifter, sifted a sieve of unsifted thistles, where is the sieve of unsifted thistles Theophilus Thistle, the thistle sifter, sifted?
~ Old Farmer's Almanac