Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...direct-mail company, says some customers tell him his accent is cute, which is hard for a 28-year- old entrepreneur to stomach. "We have a designer for our ads, and that's image. We have a WATS line, and that's image. Then they call up and hear some hillbilly talking." Speech therapy costs him $45 a session, but Brooks believes it is an investment that will pay off for the rest of his life. He's been wanting to tone down his accent since high school. "J.R. Ewing or - Matlock on TV has an ideal Southern accent...
...Inman-Ebel's view, people who talk like folks put stress in the wrong place (cre-ate for cre-ate), mispronounce vowels (rine for rain), draw monosyllables out into diphthongs (hay-ul for hell), and let their pitch glide, usually upward, as in "Y'all come back now, ya hear?" Some of them talk so slowly "you want to get inside and move the tongue yourself to get it over with." It does not add up to standard American speech...
...enjoyable to get an audience response," Goodman said of the reading. "Since most of my stories are designed to be funny, it's good to finally hear the laughter...
Dinda, a Brown University student, says the band is an attempt to discard old formulas and to perform music different from the "old slop you hear from every other band." Magus and drummer Brian Carpenter discovered Dinda, Voorhes and guitarist Steve Allegretto through a series of ads in a Providence newspaper in early...
...After it all came out, we had an opportunity to hear the other side of things," Donesa says. "What we decided was that the secret society was wrong...