Sentence examples for proper speech from inspiring English sources

Further palate surgery may be needed to aid the development of proper speech.

The practice waned in the nineteen-sixties, when agreements about proper speech were no longer universal.

Until today the shadow chancellor has given only one proper speech on the subject since taking his job.

In America, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, teaching dialects was twinned with the teaching of pronunciation — what was called "proper speech".

"If you have to make a proper speech and take interventions, you have to be able to defend your case much better".

The fact that Cameron can't even be bothered to make a proper speech shows the government has missed yet another open goal".

Proper free speech has to be more open than this.

But instead of being allowed to make a proper acceptance speech, she was given the task of introducing Beyonc?

manguage noun \ˈmaŋ-gwij, -wij\ Proper business speech excluding uptalk, vocal fry, and excessive or frivolous apologies.

Performances like these are not, in any proper sense, speeches at all, for speeches have structure and direction they are displays of discipline, not self-gratification.

By comparison, Theresa May's one proper leadership campaign speech, delivered last Monday, contained much more new thinking.