The answer was no, but "the intonation of the British Isles was unmistakable in Bell's speech," she wrote.
For all the elisions in John McCain's speech, one unmistakable truth emerged: that the stakes in the election, for the Supreme Court and all who live by its rulings, are very, very high.
Then he quoted Deuteronomy 30:19: "I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live," thereby integrating into the speech an unmistakable message on abortion — "choose life" — to an audience that wanted to hear one.
Last week Senator McCain again confused the Sunni and Shia factions battling in Iraq and had the good fortune of having coverage of his Iraq speech claiming "unmistakable progress" (despite increasing violence) interrupted by reports of mortar attacks on Baghdad's heavily fortified "green zone".
His style is unmistakable – a blend of everyday speech, inventiveness, playfulness and weirdness, with a lot of humour thrown in.
Now, come polling day Sunday, even though Le Pen is expected to reach her highest vote count ever, there are fewer smiles on her team, and the radical change of tone in her latest speeches leaves the unmistakable impression of a growing nervousness at the end of the campaign.
When we meet, his fourth child is only two weeks old, and Oliver's speech patterns bear the unmistakable mark of sleep deprivation, with sentences abandoned halfway through, and thoughts colliding into one another.
His body language was unmistakable.
"Let me tell you, there's a clear and unmistakable economic dividend," Bowen said in his speech.
Mr. Bloomberg did not mention the contract in his speech, but his message seemed unmistakable: big raises, if they are granted, will require painful sacrifices from teachers.
