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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 .