Thursday, December 10, 2009

Churchill's speechmaking

Winston Churchill was NOT a great speechmaker. Search for examples on Youtube. In fact, he was awful. However, he wrote his own speeches, and he was an absolute master of the English language. It was what he said that made his speeches memorable, not how he said it.

2 comments:

Rebekah Sacran said...

I am reading abook that has Winston Churchill in it. I actually have been meaning to ask you some questions about him.

elliebird said...

when a woman said that she disliked his politics and his moustache, he replied "Madam, i see no earthly reason why you should come into contact with either."