"The speech is admirable, but the speaker is not to be trusted; for he has never been amid the blare of trumpets."
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"It is not easy to determine what are the units of speech. Some would say speech sounds, others phonemes... The general opinion is, however, that words, not phones or phonemes or phoneme systems, are t…"
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