Famous Speeches
This speaker gave an important civil rights speech in August 1968 in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
Dr. Martin Luther King
Alliteration is the repetition of the beginning sounds, as in "She sells" this.
Seashells
People on video calls like to blur or create their own instead of showing what's really behind them.
Background
You know a place is desolate when the space program has tested here in preparation for a mission to Mars. Devon Island is part of this North American country that falls under the British monarchy.
Canada
Great Speech was founded in this year, competing with the Sochi Winter Olympics and the World Cup for best news of the year.
2014
This speech by Abraham Lincoln after the Civil War begins with "Four score and seven years ago..."
The Gettysburg Address
Onomatopoeia is the term for a word that sounds like what it's describing, like this toy's first name: ___ Lightyear
Buzz
This website gives you access to videos and music from big names and anyone else who wants to upload them.
YouTube
This island off Chile is known for giant statues and is named after a religious holiday. It's more than 2,000 miles from modern civilization.
Easter Island
These are 3 of the many conditions we can help clients with.
Articulation, Stuttering, Accent Modification, Executive Function, Language Disorders, Parkinson's, Stroke, TBI, Voice Therapy, etc.
This president famously said, "Ich bin ein Berliner" when visiting Germany in 1963.
John F. Kennedy
This word completes this pun, which is a play on words: "Make like a tree and ___."
Leave
No need for paper tickets anymore - this online event company is the world's largest ticket marketplace (and their fees jack up the price).
Ticketmaster or Live Nation
This post office located on Port Lockroy west of the Antarctic peninsula is called the "_____ Post Office", named for the local flightless aquatic bird.
Penguin
As Great Speech continues to grow, so does our percentage of these. We're currently at about 97%.
Females
This sport lost Lou Gehrig when he said farewell in 1939 noting he was "...the luckiest man on the face of the earth."
Baseball
You're having one of these when you suddenly come to a conclusion, such as "You really can't rely on what's in the portal for availability."
Epiphany
The last one of these was removed from midtown Manhattan on Monday. Everyone is probably Facetiming now.
Public pay phone
The Outer Hebrides, consisting of more than 100 islands with only a handful inhabited, is part of this country. I wonder if each island has it's own golf course?
Scotland
This section of the Great Speech website offers videos and practice items for free to potential clients who register.
The Resource Library
This speech by VP candidate Richard Nixon where he referenced his dog garnered both support and mockery.
The Checkers Speech
You're using this when you replace a word that could be offensive or uncomfortable, like saying a woman "has a bun in the oven" instead of saying pregnant.
Euphemism
This is the ability of a computer or robot to do human tasks, and some people are afraid they'll end up taking over the world.
AI or Artificial Intelligence
There are just 50 people living on Pitcairn Island. It's 3,000-miles from New Zealand and sits in this area of the world, so enchanting that Oscar Hammerstein wrote a musical about it.
South Pacific
The main page of the Great Speech website touts that "We empower people to become..." this.