Word: helling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
John Tinkler sniffs. "Hell," he says, drawing the word out into two syllables ripe with reluctance and dismay. "If someone really and truly believes that his speech is keeping him from getting along in the world, I suppose he must change it. But he isn't paying any attention to how John T. Lupton talks. He's the fellow who sold his Coca-Cola bottling franchise here for a billion and a half...
Frequent- flyer plans threaten a vulnerable airline industry. -- The Fed may be facing political pressures. -- Welcome to "hell camp...
...shoppers had witnessed one of the critical tests in the first U.S. class $ conducted by Kanrisha Yosei Gakko, a renowned Japanese management training school. Known as a "hell camp" for salespeople and managers, the school requires students to sing a "sales crow" song -- so named because the singers are supposed to sound like cawing crows -- in a public place to break down their inhibitions. The curriculum includes memorizing rules of behavior, constant oral testing on classroom work, writing speeches and delivering them in stentorian tones, along with a 25-mile hike and other strenuous physical exercise...
...home and attention from abroad made Takarabe wonder whether such a course would not succeed outside Japan. To help teach a U.S. version, he recruited two Americans. First, though, they had to pass the course themselves. Recalls Fred Delisle, 55, a retired U.S. Army colonel: "I told myself, 'Hell, I can't do this,' but pretty soon I was doing it." He and Classmate Dan Galitz, a former police training officer, finished ninth and seventh, respectively, in a class...