Elocution used in a sentence

Elocution in a sentence as a noun

Also you can find out a lot of old tongue twisters for English in elocution textbooks in 19th century from archive. org.

Seems it turned up in an elocution text of the time. Upward social amition + speech patterns.

Apple Geniuses have poor elocution and have trouble getting their point across?

Depending on the talk, the elocution and delivery can be a valuable part of the work.

PS I also went to elocution lessons but managed to persuade my parents I was a lost cause after two lessons!

You might look into drama coaches that give elocution lessons. I imagine that the skills are fairly similar.

I think PG should have referred to founders' elocution, diction, communication skills, etc. instead of only their accents.

In particular, it seems to me that hiring elocution tutors from Mexico and Spain respectively, can't be a good idea. My guess is that the author is hispanic.

Something to evaluate the level/complexity of the language used, the clarity of speech, the speed of elocution.

When I was taught elocution, we were told to begin and end each word distinctly to the following/preceding words. This impacts positively of the 'readability' of speaking.

Software should be comprehensible, because it is meant to be comprehensible, it is not just execution but elocution, and is the explanation of its own intent.

=Status= ==Long term ToDo== * Some long term thing that currently doesn't have any tasks: * Some slightly more interesting long term thing: * practice elocution * study needed inventions * study electricity ==Immediate ToDo== * Follow up on that thing by end of the week. * See if that other thing is ready.

The difference however between someone like Hitchens and someone moderating a contributions to an open source project is that Hitchens was trained in rhetoric, elocution, and debate. He knew how to use insults and jabs in appropriate situations with practiced intent.

It’s hard to find words sometimes for a concept that’s strictly a mental product and not everyone is practiced or skilled at elocution. Strong designers with poor vocal skills will undoubtedly experience frustration with remote work which is essentially a voice-primary medium.

The elegant elocution of these ladies helps reveal much about the parallels between then and now. Theirs was a time of enormous change in society, morality, identity, gender, poverty, industry, technology, religion and so on.

As a child, I had elocution lessons from a scouser in Liverpool. She insisted on pronouncing the word "with" as "hwith", with the "th" hardened as in "thought", rather than softened as in "the". As a consequence I misspelled "with" for many years. Try to avoid taking elocution lessons from someone with a non-standard accent!

I am confident in my ability to predict whether a UK politician has been to private/grammar schools and Oxbridge or not - to distinguish those who have been taught elocution and rubbed shoulders with the rich and powerful from an early age. Not only that, but confidence and certainty are very charismatic, or at least, draw attention.

Since the times of at least John Lennon's apologetically English elocution in the '60s, or perhaps Sinatra's brutish crooning decades earlier, popular music has been dominated by artists who affect a peculiar accent. This sets the artist apart as distinct while sounding new and exotic to the listener.

What brings the predominantly white male audience at Cambridge Union to their feet for a standing ovation, beyond Baldwin's faultless elocution, is his mastery of white American experience. He speaks about racism from inside out, considering that what has happened to white Americans who have succumbed to the disease of racism is worse than what has happened to black Americans who suffer it.