speech way

plural speech ways

1. human sciencesA mode or manner of speaking (e.g. accent, lect, dialect, etc.).

   In this manner the speech ways of this social class conformed to those of London to a considerable extent.

   2006, Geoffrey Forward, Pro Speech, page 39

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   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