And when you added in the sprinkling of idiomatic speech, accents, second languages, and a myriad of other verbal booby traps, it got pretty difficult.

Laurence Urdang Ship to Shore My aim in this work is to illustrate what I believe is the astonishing debt that our idiomatic speech owes to the nautical language of the past.

What the play shows in abundance, however, is the playwright's ear for the poetry of idiomatic American speech.

More recently, many critics have praised Hurston's skillful use of idiomatic speech.

The Hindoo leaned back, half closed his eyes, and continued in that oddly labored yet idiomatic speech, while before his audience there began to float a picture of what had happened to Randolph Carter.

And while idiomatic and indigenous speech is a playwright's necessity, it does not sustain an audience in the absence of funny comedy or involving drama.

So how is it that with all your ability for accumulating knowledge, you have learnt nothing about idiomatic speech?

As any translator knows only too well, wordplay and idiomatic speech are exceedingly difficult to bring from one language to another.

But after writers like William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound began employing idiomatic speech in their poems, a young generation that included the Beat Poets emerged in the 1950's.

He played some word games with FitzRoy and then urged the child to correct his English usage, because he occasionally made errors in idiomatic speech.