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speech and English
To the newspapers he talked about his unquiet life, about his wish to be a newspaperman once more, about the prevalence of American slang in British speech, about the loquacity of the English and the impossibility of finding quiet in a railway carriage, about his plans to wander for two years `` unless stopped and made to write another book ''.
Most North American speech is rhotic, as English was in most places in the 17th century.
On the other hand, North American English has undergone some sound changes not found in other varieties of English speech:
An unofficial standard for spoken American English has also developed, as a result of mass media and geographic and social mobility, and broadly describes the English typically heard from network newscasters, commonly referred to as non-regional diction, although local newscasters tend toward more parochial forms of speech.
He travelled across the United States spreading the idea of Aesthetics in a speech called " The English Renaissance.
Another characteristic of Phnom Penh speech is observed in words with an " r " either as an initial consonant or as the second member of a consonant cluster ( as in the English word " bread ").
In informal speech of English, the copula may be dropped.
The term " Canadian English " is first attested in a speech by the Reverend A. Constable Geikie in an address to the Canadian Institute in 1857.
* Hilbert's radio speech recorded in Königsberg 1930 ( in German ), with English translation
Comparisons have been made between Doublespeak and Orwell's descriptions on political speech from his essays Politics and the English Language in which " unscrupulous politicians, advertisers, religionists, and other doublespeakers of whatever stripe continue to abuse language for manipulative purposes ".
It was prepared to be incorporated within a wide variety of existing programs and textbooks in English, speech, media, communications, journalism, social studies.
English orthography, like other alphabetic orthographies, exhibits a set of relationships between speech sounds and the corresponding written words.
Often with a nominal or verbal root, the English equivalent is a prepositional phrase: parole ( by speech, orally ); vide ( by sight, visually ); reĝe ( like a king, royally ).
For example, German Rat ( pronounced with a long " a ") (= " council ") is cognate with English " read " and German and Dutch Rede (= " speech ", often religious in nature ) ( hence Æthelred the ' Unready ' would not heed the speech of his advisors, and the word ' unready ' is cognate with the Dutch word " onraad " meaning trouble, danger ), while English and Dutch " rat " for the rodent has its German cognate Ratte.
Gibberish ( sometimes spelled Jibberish ) is a generic term in English for talking that sounds like speech, but carries no actual meaning.
* A Romance language ( although English, descended from the speech of Germanic tribes which arrived after the Romans had left Britain, has had a heavy influence from French, due primarily to the Norman conquest of England ), nor
Kennedy used the phrase twice in his speech, ending with it, and pronouncing the sentence with his Boston accent, reading from his note " ish bin ein Bearleener ", which he had written out in English phonetics.
The term kenning has been applied by modern scholars to similar figures of speech in other languages too, especially Old English.
The English word " language " derives ultimately from Indo-European " tongue, speech, language " through Latin lingua, " language, tongue ", and Old French langage " language ".
Coined in English 1603, the word " lexicon " derives from the Greek ( lexicon ), neuter of ( lexikos ), " of or for words ", from ( lexis ), " speech ", " word ", and that from ( lego ), " to say ", " to speak ".

speech and Parliament
The granting of independence to the Bank of England in 1997 was, in fact, the granting of operational independence ; the inflation target continued to be announced in the Chancellor's annual budget speech to Parliament.
The proposal included a multi-party system, freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and the press, and the use of referenda for, as an example, dissolving the Parliament.
The Belgian Anti-Racism Law, in full, the Law of 30 July 1981 on the Punishment of Certain Acts inspired by Racism or Xenophobia, is a law against hate speech and discrimination passed by the Federal Parliament of Belgium in 1981 which made certain acts motivated by racism or xenophobia illegal.
Certain politicians, including Member of Parliament Jussi Halla-aho, consider the term " hate speech " problematic because of the lack of an easy definition.
* 1768 – James Otis, Jr. offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.
In his speech opening Parliament in 1835, the King assured the members that the fire was accidental, and left it to Parliament itself to make " plans for permanent accommodation.
Menzies was renowned as a brilliant speaker, both on the floor of Parliament and on the hustings ; his speech " The Forgotten People " is an example of his oratorical skills.
The portmanteau stagflation is generally attributed to British politician Iain Macleod, who coined the phrase in his speech to Parliament in 1965.
Each group of speakers broadcast sound and music from a particular era ( e. g. King Edward VIII's abdication speech ; Gough Whitlam's speech at Parliament House in 1975 ), the overall effect being that the soundscape would " flow " through history as walkers proceeded along the bridge.
It is considered particularly ironic that Atatürk himself, in his lengthy speech to the new Parliament in 1927, used a style of Ottoman which sounded so alien to later listeners that it had to be " translated " three times into modern Turkish: first in 1963, again in 1986, and most recently in 1995.
* The third Tuesday in September: " Prinsjesdag " ( literally " Prince's Day ") is the Dutch State Opening of Parliament when the Queen reads the " speech from the throne " (" Troonrede ").
The assassination of Massoud is believed to have a connection to the September 11, 2001 attacks on U. S. soil, which killed nearly 3000 people, and which appeared to be the terrorist attack that Massoud had warned against in his speech to the European Parliament several months earlier.
This provoked a wave of hostility to Walpole because many saw such an act as unconstitutional — that members of Parliament were being dismissed for their freedom of speech in attacking the government, something protected by Parliamentary privilege.
This curious representation of William Pitt making a speech to Parliament wants to show his absolute opposition to France on colonial problems.
* February 3 – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Harold Macmillan makes the Wind of Change speech to the South African Parliament in Cape Town ( although he had first made the speech, to little publicity, in Accra, Gold Coast – now Ghana – on January 10 ).
** Swami Vivekananda delivers an inspiring speech on his paper at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
* In France, the Congress of France ( congrès ) denotes a formal and rarely convened joint session of both houses of Parliament to ratify an amendment to the Constitution or to listen to a speech by the President of the French Republic.
On November 30, 1774, King George III opened Parliament with a speech condemning Massachusetts and the Suffolk Resolves.
It lays down limits on the powers of sovereign and sets out the rights of Parliament and rules for freedom of speech in Parliament, the requirement to regular elections to Parliament and the right to petition the monarch without fear of retribution.
* the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament

speech and she
Then she catapults into `` everything and everybody '', putting particular violence on `` everybody '', indicating to the linguist that this is a spot to flag -- that is, it is not congruent to the patient's general style of speech up to this point.
Her teeth chattered so that she made three attempts at speech before she became intelligible.
Her little speech was totally out of character with the sort of person I thought she was.
Once seen, Artemis punished Actaeon: she forbade him speech — if he tried to speak, he would be changed into a stag — for the unlucky profanation of her virginity's mystery.
In her speech at the 2000 Conservative conference, she called for a zero tolerance policy of prosecution, albeit with only £ 100 fines as the punishment, for users of cannabis.
Tacitus gives her a short speech in which she presents herself not as an aristocrat avenging her lost wealth, but as an ordinary person, avenging her lost freedom, her battered body, and the abused chastity of her daughters.
According to Dr. Wink, Jasmuheen ’ s pupils were dilated, her speech was slow, and she was " quite dehydrated, probably over 10 %, getting up to 11 %".
In The Treasure of the City of Ladies, she highlights the persuasive effect of women ’ s speech and actions in everyday life.
Plischke wrote a 1997 account of visiting Kennedy at the White House weeks before the trip to help compose the speech and teach him the proper pronunciation ; she also claims that the phrase had been translated stateside already by the translator scheduled to accompany him on the trip (" a rather unpleasant man who complained bitterly that he had had to interrupt his vacation just to watch the President ’ s mannerisms ").
On the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, Andrássy resolutely defended the neutrality of the Austrian monarchy, and in his speech on 28 July 1870 warmly protested against the assumption that it was in the interests of Austria to seek to recover the position she had held in Germany before 1863.
However, as the filming progressed, her speech slowed, her pupils dilated and she lost over a stone ( 6 kg or 14 lb ) in weight.
" In May 2002, she made a speech to the people of Afghanistan through Radio Liberty, a radio station in Prague, Czech Republic.
In a single speech in Chicago she sold an estimated five million dollars ' worth of bonds.
When she was 9 years old, she composed and delivered an hour-long speech in Latin to some of the most distinguished intellectuals of the day.
As before, she is created by Hephaestus, but now more gods contribute to her completion ( 63 – 82 ): Athena taught her needlework and weaving ( 63 – 4 ); Aphrodite " shed grace upon her head and cruel longing and cares that weary the limbs " ( 65 – 6 ); Hermes gave her " a shameful mind and deceitful nature " ( 67 – 8 ); Hermes also gave her the power of speech, putting in her " lies and crafty words " ( 77 – 80 ) ; Athena then clothed her ( 72 ); next she, Persuasion and the Charites adorned her with necklaces and other finery ( 72 – 4 ); the Horae adorned her with a garland crown ( 75 ).
In January 2009, Robyn won a Swedish Grammis Award for Best Live Act 2008 ; in her acceptance speech, she said that Madonna was to thank for the prize.
Speakers research the dead person's life and give a speech that attempts to speak for them, describing the person's life as he or she tried to live it.
In May, she attended the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio where she delivered her famous extemporaneous speech on women's rights, later known as " Ain't I a Woman ".
Truth's own speech pattern was not Southern in nature, as she was born and raised in New York, and spoke only Dutch until she was nine years old.
For the first part of her speech, she spoke mainly about the rights of black women.

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