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Significats de nasal twang en anglès

Exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects)

        Ús de nasal twang en anglès
        1
        The same nasal twang was in her voice, the same snobbish reserve.
        Dreams from Bunker Hill
        2
        He became steadier in his gaze; his voice lost some of its nasal twang.
        The Guardian
        3
        He has a nasal twang, right priestly in its note.
        Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
        4
        Eliphalet girded up his loins, and sharpened his nasal twang to cope with hers.
        The Crisis — Volume 01
        5
        Noseplugs sealed her nostrils, giving her voice a nasal twang.
        Sisterhood of Dune
        6
        The speech is a stately drawl very different from the nasal twang of Eliphalet's bringing up.
        The Crisis — Volume 01
        7
        Are you, in your nasal twang, going to have my head chopped off by royal decree?
        The bourne ultimatum
        8
        There is always a nasal twang about it, but quite distinct from the nasality of a Yankee.
        Froudacity; West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained...
        9
        Rodin pronounced these last word with a nasal twang, and the devout lady bowed her head respectfully.
        The Wandering Jew — Volume 11
        10
        His tones took on a nasal twang.
        The Crisis — Volume 06
        11
        Far off as the voice seemed at first, there was a delicious, home-sickness-provoking, nasal twang to the accents.
        Fifth Avenue
        12
        It was understood to be a description of my conversation; American peculiarities, nasal twang, Yankee notions, stars and stripes.
        The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1
        13
        He was proud of his nasal twang and his want of grammar, and all amenities and decencies of speech.
        Trumps
        14
        With a subtle nasal twang
        Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 18, 1919
        15
        The fear of nasal twang and failure to distinguish between it and true nasal resonance has been the stumbling block.
        Resonance in Singing and Speaking
        16
        Her English was accented, neither the flat, nasal twang of the Midwest, nor the vowel-bloating drawl of the Southeastern seaboard.
        Bones to Ashes
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        Nasal twang a través del temps
        Nasal twang per variant geogràfica
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