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The tiled roofs are Spanish; the speech is Spanish; but just beneath roof and speech, the life and thought are profoundly and unfathomably Indian Not with all the Caracunans, surely.

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  1. noun The faculty or act of speaking.
  2. noun The faculty or act of expressing or describing thoughts, feelings, or perceptions by the articulation of words.
  3. noun Something spoken; an utterance.

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cacozelia · garrulous · allusion · frication · articulators · susurration · whisper · somniloquy · euphemism · oxymoron · pronunciation

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language ·  expression ·  conversation ·  letter ·  action ·  phrase ·  style ·  statement ·  song ·  remark ·  story

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English speche, from Old English sprǣc, spǣc.

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  1. Early modern English also speach; from Middle English speche, spæche, earlier spek, speke, from Anglo-Saxon spǣc, spēc, earlier sprǣc, sprēc (= Old Saxon sprāca = OFries. spreke, spretse, sprake = Dutch spraak = Middle Low German sprake = Old High German sprāhha, Middle High German G. sprache = Icelandic spekjur, feminine plural, = Swedish språg = Danish sprog), speech, from sprecan (preterit spræc), speak: see speak.
  2. from speech, n.
 

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/spitʃ/
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