I hate the word dialect, but when I hit some kind of first-speech idiom, I feel safe and I trust the writing in a different sort of way".
In fact, as the BBC is reporting, Mr Stevens is making money a central theme of his first speech as head of the health service.
I mentioned the Chorus in Henry V and I have recited sections of his first speech ("O for a muse of fire") to my Wars company many times.
By the end of the first speech, my teeth ached.
The economy was the focus of his first speech.
In 1999, Abdullah was tutored over and over in the correct pronunciation of his first speech as King to the parliament.
TORONTO — Although former President George W. Bush has not been popular in Canada, the country on Tuesday became the venue of his first speech since leaving office.
In the pseudoword condition auditory stimuli mismatched from the onset of the first speech segment.
Expected word forms labelled the picture (word condition), while unexpected word forms mismatched by either a small deviation in word medial vowel height (mispronunciation condition) or a large deviation from the onset of the first speech segment (pseudoword condition).
One of the main themes of Mr. Brown's first speech was how to deal with joblessness.
