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“His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day.”

Writing School Left Struggle Conversation Advantage Remains Evening This Day Lectures Pronunciation

Book:At School in the Promised Land: Or The Story of a Little Immigrant

Source: At School in the Promised Land: Or The Story of a Little Immigrant

“Art is the body's pronunciation of the soul.”

Art Soul Body Art Is Pronunciation

Author:Michael Gungor

“The mere pronunciation of the word luxurious feels lush, luxuriant.”

Feels Mere Luxury Luxurious Lush Pronunciation

Author:Lady G

“And in his third essay Herodius (not Herodotus, a mistaken pronunciation, perhaps) said 'We can contend with the evil that men do in the name of evil, but heaven protect us from what they do in the name of good.'”

Men Said Evil Names Heaven Protect Thirds Mistaken Essays Pronunciation

Author:Richard Boone

“Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning variety-of syntax, spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary-from region to region.”

Earth Language Quality Variety Charm Regions Rhetoric Vocabulary Stunning Down To Earth Spelling Syntax Yiddish Pronunciation

Author:Israel Shenker

“They have a lot of trouble with pronunciation, because they can't move their jaw muscles, because of malnutrition caused by wisely refusing to eat English food, much of which was designed and manufactured in medieval times during the reign of King Walter the Mildly Disturbed.”

Funny Moving Trouble Kings Humorous England Muscles Reign Medieval Disturbed Malnutrition Pronunciation Medieval Times

Book:The World According to Dave Barry

Source: The World According to Dave Barry