Word: s-sound
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Silverstein has been careful to elicit from the refined men in the play aptly elegant deportment and diction. They show a delightful preciosity by pronouncing with a pure s-sound instead of an sh-sound all such words as "appreciate," "profession," "politicians" and "demonstration." And even the word "exquisite" is correctly accented on the first syllable...
...gawsh, do I s-sound f-f-f-f-funny!" This kind of blurb is just what Frederick C. Parkard, Jr., '20, associate professor of Public Speaking, is looking for in his voice tests for Freshmen now being made in Holden Chapel...
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