speech way
English
Etymology
From speech + way.
Noun
speech way (plural speech ways)
- (linguistics) A mode or manner of speaking (e.g. accent, lect, dialect, etc.).
- 1991, David Hackett Fischer, Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, page 263:
- Virginia speech ways rapidly created their own local variations in such number and variety that by the nineteenth century the birthplace of a native could be located within a few miles by subtle distinctions in the way that he sounded a and r.
- 2006, Geoffrey Forward, Pro Speech, page 39:
- In this manner the speech ways of this social class conformed to those of London to a considerable extent.