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Many, very many were in tears. While he goes on he falls into the nasality and sing-song tone sometimes heard in such meetings; but in a moment or two more as if recollecting himself, he breaks off, stops, and resumes in a natural tone. This occurs three or four times during the talk of the evening, till all concludes.
His speech was not a little infected with the nasality as easy to catch as hard to get rid of which I presume the Puritans carried from England to America. On the whole, George was less interesting than Alexa had expected. He came to her as if he would embrace her, but an instinctive movement on her part sufficed to check him.
I began: "For a day like this, with all the colour in the trees themselves and so very little in the air " There came an interruption, a voice of unpleasant and wiry nasality, speaking from behind us. "WELL, WELL!" it said. "So here we are again!"
In a small room, speak as gently and easily as in conversation; in a large room, think of the people farthest away, and speak clearly, with a slight separation between words, and with definite phrasing, aiming your mind toward the distant listeners. If one is conscious of nasality or throatiness of voice, it certainly pays to study the subject seriously with an intelligent teacher.
Why not therefore frankly and boldly pronounce it as English ennwee? Why not forswear French again and pronounce nuance without trying vainly to preserve the Gallic nasality of the second n newance? And as for a third necessary word, timbre.
The common defects of nasality, throatiness, and harshness, are due to wrong and careless use of the speaking-instrument. In the training of the public speaker the first step is to bring the breathing apparatus under proper control.
Ladies in the vicinity of our person need not hesitate to fling themselves madly into the first goose-puddle that obstructs their way; their liberty of action will be scrupulously respected. .... There is a bladdery old nasality ranging about the country upon free passes, vexing the public ear with "hallowed songs," and making of himself a spectacle to the eye.
The following exercise, if properly taken, will induce right direction of tone: produce a light humming sound such as would be the sound of m, n, or ng, if so idealized as to eliminate that element of sound commonly spoken of as nasality. That which is called nasality is caused by the failure of the tone to reach freely the anterior cavities of the nares.
In Scotland, thriftiness and oatmeal were the themes of his pleasantry; in Wales, he found the language, the literature, and the local nomenclature equally comic, and reserved his loudest guffaw for the Eisteddfod. Abroad, "Foreigners don't wash" was the all-embracing formula. Nasality, Bloomerism, and Dollars epitomized his notion of American civilization; and he cheerfully echoed the sentiments
It may indeed be the contagion of the National School teacher, but I feel quite sure, from long observation of the wrong breathing, that the wrong breathing did not spread from London through the schools, but was everywhere as surely characteristic of the unbred in England as nasality is with us.
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