Our Miscellany
A TONGUE-TWISTER.
Try it yourself, very slowly and carefully, until you can say it easily then pass it along to your friends. Here it is : —‘ She stood at the gate welcoming him in.’ Ten to one a person trying to pronounce the sentence for the first time will fumble it laughably. These tongue-twisting sentences, however, are good elocutionaory exercises. The} give you control of your vocal organs, so that you can enunciate property just as finger exercises on the piano or organ can give control of the fingers. What an immense amount of mechanical practice does it require to establish anything like a close sympathy between the brain and the physical organs. 1
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Southern Cross, Volume 4, Issue 1, 4 April 1896, Page 10
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115Our Miscellany Southern Cross, Volume 4, Issue 1, 4 April 1896, Page 10
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