Presidential Inaugural Speeches

Shipley · Post by **Shipley** » July 26th, 2009, 3:02 pm

In many cases, they probably always have; many of the supposedly American variations in vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation appear to be English regional variations which were preserved in the US, but not in standardized British English. Pronunciation of modern British English varies widely, and the variations must have been much greater in the 17th century. Even today, "neether" rather than standard English "nye-ther" is not uncommon in some parts of Northern England.

As can readily be seen from the choice of placenames in the older parts of New England, many of the earlier settlers in the US came from either East Anglia (Suffolk/Norfolk) or the South West (Somerset/Devon/Cornwall), both areas which are still (though to a lesser extent than formerly) notorious for using pronunciations and dialect impenetrable to foreigners from (say) London. For example, both "coney" for "rabbit" and "fall" for "autumn" were originally East Anglian dialect variations which ended up as standard forms in US English.

BellonaTimes · Post by **BellonaTimes** » January 27th, 2013, 9:54 am

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4938

President Obama's 2nd address is now in the Project Gutenberg collection, which runs from Washington to Obama's first inaugural.

Post by **TriciaG** » January 29th, 2013, 3:28 pm

[Merged new thread into an old one on the same topic]

donma03 · Post by **donma03** » January 28th, 2023, 9:07 pm

Hi All,

If it hasn't yet been spoken for, I'd be happy to record Clinton 1 and 2.
If those are already spoken for, then I'd gladly volunteer to record any other open assignments.

All the Best,

Maurice Donegan

Post by **mightyfelix** » January 28th, 2023, 11:42 pm

donma03 wrote: ↑January 28th, 2023, 9:07 pm Hi All,

If it hasn't yet been spoken for, I'd be happy to record Clinton 1 and 2.
If those are already spoken for, then I'd gladly volunteer to record any other open assignments.

All the Best,

Maurice Donegan

None of them are spoken for, as this is not currently an active project, but still a suggestion. If you would like to record one or more, you can always submit those to our nonfiction collection: viewtopic.php?t=95769 It's possible that some of these speeches may have already been recorded and submitted to a similar collection. I don't know for sure, as I haven't done any checking on that. But whether they have or not, you are still welcome to submit your own.