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speech ways

speech ways is the plural of speech way.

Meaning of speech way

Noun

speech way (plural speech ways)

  1. A mode or manner of speaking (e.g. accent, lect, dialect, etc.).
    • 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.1991, David Hackett Fischer, Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, page 263

Questions about speech ways

What is speech ways the plural of?
Speech ways is the plural of speech way.

Words near speech ways in the dictionary

  1. speech therapists
  2. speech therapy
  3. speech time
  4. speech times
  5. speech way
  6. speech ways
  7. speech-based picking
  8. speech-crier
  9. speech-criers
  10. speechcraft
  11. speechcrafts

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