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... AMERICAN SPEECH 1 Brobury Pearce Ellis Speech is , above all else , democratic . A spoken word is a commonly- agreed - on symbol for a thing or an idea , existing for ... AMERICAN SPEECH 205 Brobury Pearce Ellis, Standards in American Speech.
... AMERICAN SPEECH 1 Brobury Pearce Ellis Speech is , above all else , democratic . A spoken word is a commonly- agreed - on symbol for a thing or an idea , existing for ... AMERICAN SPEECH 205 Brobury Pearce Ellis, Standards in American Speech.
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... American . There are few people as isolated as that today ; and the wider our contact with others , the more often we hear pronunciations which differ from our own . When this happens , communication is momentarily halted while we ...
... American . There are few people as isolated as that today ; and the wider our contact with others , the more often we hear pronunciations which differ from our own . When this happens , communication is momentarily halted while we ...
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... American sources say rayshun . How- ever , in Kenyon and Knott's " Pronouncing Dictionary of American English , " published in 1944 , we find the short a preferred to the long a . In view of this confusion , it is small wonder that ...
... American sources say rayshun . How- ever , in Kenyon and Knott's " Pronouncing Dictionary of American English , " published in 1944 , we find the short a preferred to the long a . In view of this confusion , it is small wonder that ...
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SPEAKER | 13 |
Robert Hutchins The Test of Education | 25 |
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