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Keywords: Speech, Contemptuous, Couldn't, Distinctive, Embroidery

Related Terms: Slang , Pause , Dialect, Speak, Blah, Gibberish, Say , American Sign Language, Articulate, Cant, Circumlocution, Colloquial, Colloquialism, Declaim, Deixis, Discourse, Expression, Idiomatic, Interjection, Mime, Nonverbal, Pronounce, Pronunciation, Prosody, Rhetoric, Sentence, Sign , Speaking, Speech, Tongue, Usage, Utterance, Utterance, Word, Expressive Language, Sign Language, Receptive Language, Clich, Body Language, Speechreading, Telegraphic Speech, Non-Verbal Communication, Paralanguage, Nonverbal Communication, Periphrasis, Language Disorder, Kinesics, Speech Act, Reported Speech

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expressions in general; speech.

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distinctive manner of oral expression; "he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent"; "she had a very clear speech pattern"

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a distinctive pattern of speech that is unique to a particular community's language

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a speech difference, not a disorder

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way of speech common with one group

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A distinctive feature that accentuates the look and style of a garment. Can be a touch of colour, embroidery, etc, that makes a designer's work look unique.

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