Word: dictional
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Permit me to add that I have always admired TIME's diction, especially the use of epithets which help to picture people for us. Maybe it is a coincidence, maybe it is due to a background of classical training in your editors: the language of this most modern of magazines often reminds me of Homer...
Chief recording problem was to find readers with a pleasing voice quality, an ability to hold an even reading pace. A few clergymen filled the bill, but most recordings were made by diction-expert stage and radio people...
...voice was familiar, the argument reasonable, the diction clear. The people at their radios listened to the President. But there seemed to be something in the air that blurred the reception...
...Orphan. Probably the highest-paid bird in the world ($500 a radio performance), Raffles belongs to the explorer-lecturers, Mr. & Mrs. Carveth Wells. Mrs. Wells adopted Raffles in Malaya four years ago after its mother was killed by a snake. Mrs. Wells worked hard on the bird's diction, avoiding profanity, and taught Raffles to speak only on cue (a process involving bribery with the bird's favorite food-grapes). A major crisis developed when Raffles picked up a Southern drawl from the Wells's Negro maid, but that crisis passed when the maid picked...
...Post Office called the songbook "lewd and obscene," even though it had been reviewed by the military. Post Exchanges continued to sell it. Men in service, never noted for dainty diction, continued to sing of disrespect and dirt as they went about their dirty business: We had a major and his name was Tack...