> Also, one of my favorite pronunciation excersises from high school drama: To sit in solemn silence on a dull dark dock, in a pestulential prison with a life long lock, awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp, shock from a chippy chippy chopper on a big black block. A big black block, a short, sharp, shock from a chippy chippy chopper on a dull dark dock.
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> Try saying it faster and faster each time. It's great.
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> Ti"Ticia's trying the talking test"cia

Ticia, do you know what that's from? It's part of a song from Gilbert & Sullivan's comic operetta, "The Mikado." I was in the pit orchestra for my college's production of it my senior year of college. That was one of my favorite songs from that production, because it was so funny. I can't imagine how long it must have taken the actors/singers to get those lines down...especially considering that they're sung by three men in unison.

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