Pronounce

Famous quotes containing the word pronounce:

“They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounce it true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

“Tell me of the height of the mountains of the moon, or of the diameter of space, and I may believe you, but of the secret history of the Almighty, and I shall pronounce thee mad.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)