elocution
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When he did, he held the floor with effortless elocution.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2025
The comic actor, who often played well-spoken English gentlemen-type roles, was born in Tottenham, north-east London in 1924 and received elocution lessons as a child to correct his cockney accent.
From Reuters • Nov. 8, 2022
Gravelly and majestic, with rounded vowels honed by elocution lessons in a rough-and-tumble boys’ home, it assured him an audience even over the scrum of the Australian prisons where he spent much of his life.
From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2022
During her premiership from 1979 to 1990, the politician took elocution lessons to lower her voice to half the average difference in pitch between a man and woman's voice.
From Salon • Apr. 9, 2022
Dorcas recognizes her partner as Martin, who had been in her elocution class for a hot minute—which was as long as it took for the teacher to realize he would never relinquish “ax” for “ask.”
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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