accord superiority to the English voice , whereas actually it 
     is the flexible pitch  that makes the Englishman’s talk so 
     much more articulate than ours. Pitch is to our language 
     as gesticulation is to the French, its expressiveness, its 
     emphasis, and its point. The Elizabethans doubtless 
     spoke the language up and down through its whole 
     gamut, and echoes of that eloquence linger in the talk of 
     Irishmen today. Without sliding pitch the reading of verse  
     cannot be effective. 

     Americans have pursued the merely visual implications of 
print more whole-heartedly than anybody else, for reasons that 
will shortly appear. Bror Danielsson provides a wealth of 
specialist material to back up Hillyer in his Studies on the  
Accentuation of Polysyllabic Latin, Greek, and Romance Loan- 
words in English .