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1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 77^v The speech-shunning sores, and sight-ircking botches of theyr vnsatiate intemperance.

1608 J. Day Humour out of Breath sig. E1^v If speech-bereauing loue will let thee speake.

1717 N. Rowe Poems in Wks. (1728) I. 79 That Tyburn-Tribe of speech-making Non-jurors.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Fears in Solitude in Sibylline Leaves 66 A vain, speech-mouthing, speech-reporting Guild.

1834 J. S. Mill in Monthly Repos. 8 419 One of our politicians..reproached him..with being a λογογράϕος, or speech-writer.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. ii. 23 Their miraculous healer and speech-bringer is rapt away.

1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. ii. 13 The whole process of speech-getting.

1933 Amer. Speech 8 11/1 To complete any gaps there may be in the speech training of the members.

1955 T. H. Pear Eng. Social Differences 99 Many people..flare up at any suggestion (except from a speech-trainer consulted voluntarily) of possible improvements in their speech.

1973 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 18 90 Using the speech analyzer..we then recorded an intonation curve (in Hz) for each sentence on photo-sensitive paper.

1976 H. Wilson Governance of Brit. iv. 88 The transatlantic custom of using speech-writers, recently imported into Britain for the use of certain eminent politicians and others, is only to be deplored.

1977 P. Strevens New Orientations Teaching Eng. vii. 86 Young learners will learn best through mimicry with speech training games for interest and for special points of difficulty, but with little or no use of phonetics.