Examples: he listened to an address on minor Roman poets
Examples: his speech was garbled he uttered harsh language he recorded the spoken language of the streets
Examples: he could hear them uttering merry speeches
Examples: they were perfectly comfortable together without speech
Examples: his manner of speaking was quite abrupt her speech was barren of southernisms I detected a slight accent in his speech
Examples: a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline the teacher gave him a talking to
Examples: the actor forgot his speech
Examples: language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals
speech (English)└── speche (Middle English (1100-1500)) └── spæc (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
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