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Tam argues that these speech forms are not just dialects but distinct languages, as different from one another as many of the languages spoken in Europe.
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Gina Anne Tam, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
This system frees up space for speeches to be more interesting, as seen in Sheryl Lee Ralph’s musical interpolation of the acceptance-speech form.
—Vulture, 12 Sep. 2022
Gina Anne Tam, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
This system frees up space for speeches to be more interesting, as seen in Sheryl Lee Ralph’s musical interpolation of the acceptance-speech form.
—Vulture, 12 Sep. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for speech form
monosyllable
Noun
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And so, while the two talked at and around Andy Warhol and to each other, Warhol sat with his tiny dachshund, Archie Bunker, in his lap and snapped the reporters’ pictures with his new Polaroid camera, answering direct questions with shrugs or vague monosyllables.—
Stephen Birmingham,
Town & Country,
10 Aug. 2023
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Hearing this jab of monosyllables is like being poked in the eye.—
Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2023
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“Speech form.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speech%20form. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.
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