Quotes about pronunciation
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Quotes about pronunciation

“He said "cool" like I say a Spanish word when I'm not sure of the pronunciation.”
Source: The Summoning
Visible Speech: The Diverse Oneness of Writing Systems (1989, pp. 115-116) http://pinyin.info/readings/texts/visible/index.html
Visible Speech: The Diverse Oneness of Writing Systems (1989)

1880s, Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885)

Non-Fiction, A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English (1992)

Life of Demosthenes
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Above two quotes about her singing in Urdu and other languages in Lata Mangeshkar has to thank Dilip Kumar for her Urdu skills!, 29 Npvember 2013, India Today http://www.deccanherald.com/content/10118/,

By Raychand Boral in "Begum Akhtar the Undisputed Malika of Ghazals".