![]() ![]() Fisher Ames, a representative in the United States Congress, said Washington’s voice was “deep, a little tremulous, and so low as to call for close attention.” Other contemporaries of Washington described his tone as dispassionate, which Paul K. Washington’s contemporaries described his voice similarly to the way that Morse, Kahn, and others have portrayed it. This habit may have caused Washington to speak with a slight murmur, an element that was highlighted in both Morse and Kahn’s performances. Steve Yoch, author of the book “Becoming George Washington” cites Washington’s bout of pleurisy, an illness which involves inflammation of the lung tissues, as the cause of his voice being “high, weak and breathy.” Washington also suffered from numerous tooth problems, so he attempted to keep his mouth closed as often as possible to hide any unsightliness. In his life, Washington suffered from a host of throat and lung related illnesses, including diphtheria, tuberculosis, epiglottitis, pneumonia, and quinsy (infection of the tonsils.) It is likely that any of these illnesses, or perhaps all of them together, had an influence on the tonality and strength of Washington’s voice. Considering all of this and his farmer upbringing, it is safe to speculate that Washington’s natural accent was, as Morse portrays it, predominantly American with a detectable English influence. Washington’s accent may have been more influenced by the rural setting of his younger years than it was by his exposure to people with English accents. Further, newer elements of the English language, adapting itself across the Atlantic, may not have made it to the areas with less contact to England. Likely they would influence the accents of those around Washington in rural Virginia. Since the newly formed United States was physically separate from England, different dialects formed within the early colonies. His parents, Augustine and Mary Ball Washington, were part of the gentry class and of English descent. Washington was born on Februin Westmoreland County, Virginia. ![]() As to the question of whether or not Washington had an English accent, there are many possibilities. Send us feedback.Research offers many clues to how Washington sounded. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'tremulous.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2022 Willingham’s tremulous narrative voice might have some readers reaching for a calming agent, too, but her denouement is both surprising and plausible. 2022 Ronnie Spector, whose hard-edged yet tremulous voice soared on the Ronettes’ girl-group hits of the early ‘60s, died on Wednesday of cancer.Ĭhris Morris, Variety, 12 Jan. Los Angeles Times, Garnish as one desires, perhaps with a juicy blackberry or a hothouse flower, something dewy and tremulous, to be sure. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 June 2022 In high, tremulous voices, the Sisters of the Holy Family were chanting their midday prayers when a child’s gleeful shout echoed from a nearby corridor, punctuating the solemn incantation. 2022 His voice trips between tremulous Christensen and baritone Jones.ĭarren Franich, EW.com, 22 June 2022 And Minnelli is clearly aware of the force of her performance, creating long takes that serve as a sort of proscenium as well as urgent closeups that burst with her tremulous power. 2022 With it, O’Farrell demonstrates fiction’s ability to offer counter narratives to those of received history, to open before us imaginative abundance and a tremulous sense of possibility. Recent Examples on the Web Consider the household of Jack Chambers (Styles) and his wife, Alice (Pugh), who is fair of face and tremulous of mind.Īnthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. ![]()
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