Eliezer A Adizas

Gr.11 GAS 1

Performance Task # 7

Here we have 54 words referring to manners or styles of

speaking, words that use the suffix '-loquent', '-loquence',
or '-loquy', from Latin loqui (to speak). While in an age of
text-messaging, public speaking has lost its once-vaunted
status as a communication medium, as long as people
meet face to face, others will judge them on their
manner of speech. As a university instructor, I know only
too well the perils of many of these words. One of my
(friendly) rival word lists online and a favourite site of
mine is the Grandiloquent Dictionary. Curiously, many '-
loquence'-suffixed words are lost words, and thus cannot
be included here