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Say Something
articulation: the formation of clear and distinct sounds in speech.
enunciation: the act of pronouncing words.
diction: the style of enunciation in speaking or singing; the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.
Say Something Unclear
susurration: an indistinct sound, as of whispering or rustling.
mumble: to say something in a way that is not loud or clear enough so that your words are difficult to understand.
babble: to speak quickly in a way that other people cannot understand easily
slur: to speak without pronouncing the words clearly or separately, for example because you are very tired or drunk.
equivocate: to avoid making a clear statement by saying something that has more than one possible meaning
sputter: to speak or say something in a confused way, often while taking short quick breaths, for example because you are shocked or angry
Poetic Sound
alliteration: the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
assonance: the repetition of vowel sounds within a tight group of words.
consonance: is the partial or total identity of consonants in words whose main vowels differ. Example: shadow meadow; pressed, passed; sipped, supped.
Speech Problems
lisp: a speech defect in which s is pronounced like th in thick and z is pronounced like th in this.
stutter: talk with continued involuntary repetition of sounds, especially initial consonants.
stammer: speak with sudden involuntary pauses and a tendency to repeat the initial letters of words.
apraxia: If you have apraxia, your tongue and lips aren’t able to move in the correct way to produce sounds.
cluttering: This is to describe a speech to be abnormally rapid, irregular, or both for the speaker. Someone who clutters may speak in bursts or pause in unexpected places.
The Sound Of A Language
phonology: The study of the patterns and system of sounds in a particular language.
dialect and accent: An accent is simply how one pronounces words—a style of pronunciation. A dialect includes not just pronunciations, but also one’s general vocabulary and grammar
idiolect is the language of a single individual (language which one person has made up for their own use only).
cognate: Cognates are words in two languages that share a similar meaning, spelling, and pronunciation.
homonym, homophone, homograph: Homophones are words that sound the same but are different in meaning or spelling. Homographs are spelled the same, but differ in meaning or pronunciation. Homonyms can be either or even both.
creole: is a stable natural language that develops from the simplifying and mixing of different languages into a new one within a fairly brief period of time: often, a pidgin evolved into a full-fledged language. For example, English has many creole language variations, like Manglish (Malaysian English), Singlish (Singapore English) etc.
Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia is the process of creating a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes. The following is a list of 9, but there are a lot more than this. I somehow feel that most of the zz, ff words and a lot of sound describing words are onomatopoeia kind of words.
fizz: (of a liquid) produce bubbles of gas and make a hissing sound.
honk: the cry of a wild goose.
jingle: a light ringing sound such as that made by metal objects being shaken together.
moo: make the characteristic deep vocal sound of a cow.
plop: a short sound as of a small, solid object dropping into water without a splash.
neigh: a characteristic high-pitched sound uttered by a horse.
pop: make a light explosive sound.
woof: the barking sound made by a dog.
Haoyan Do 
Wow! Nice blog about so many new words, I didn’t know before reading this blog . Thank you very much for sharing ❣️👏🌹😊
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Yes, new words can be overwhelming, but if we learn together, it makes it less boring. My memory is so bad now that I can’t remember anything almost.
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Thanks for sharing! I learn new words reading your posts. How I wish I can retain most of them!
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I can’t remember them and that’s why I compile this list to share with others in order to motivate myself. LOL.
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Very interesting words- I find onomatopoeia very interesting and I remember having to learn about it in school.
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They are wonderful words in many ways. I love them especially because they are easier to remember than others as if they come with sound bites.
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This concept is shining through the share of a great knowledge. Many new words that most of us don’t know and can learn from here 🥰❤
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Thank you. Yes, I compiled this list to try to enhance memory and learn with others. Glad you like it.
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My pleasure dear Haoyan❣
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😜👍😊
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Oh this is delightful! So glad I came across this and am learning new vocab!! Appreciate heaps!!!
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Wow, this is such a great list! I love the idea behind the “new word” posts. They’re always so enriching.
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I am surprised by how many wonderful words I do not know. My favorite new one is also susurration.
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LOL. Let’s learn together and I love susurration too. It is a rather whimsical word. Never encountered it anywhere.
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Really interesting! Thanks a lot for sharing 😊😊😊
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Thank you for visiting.
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My pleasure
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Well done.
You’re helping everyone’s vocabulary.
Had no idea about a few of them.
Complex. 🙂
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Probably they are not so often used. I’ve never used any of the words in those lists. LOL.
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Interesting list.
I think there’s a theory (maybe discredited) that all words started out as onomatopoeic (hundreds of thousand of years ago I guess). Or perhaps, in some cases, the mouth made a shape that resembled the object referred to: eg “moon”, “lune” (French) and “kuu” (Finnish) all create a round (moon-like) mouth shape when you pronounce them.
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Wow, what a wonderful theory. I think “I” was created when a human like ape sighed “ai” about something disappointing. And when women were told to hush up by the sound “sh”, the word “she” was created. Yes, the moon was from the mouth shape. If we don’t have to work for a living, I guess we can all be linguists to investigate something really fun.
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This made me laugh because often I cannot say something here in Germany or when I do it is unclear. Hahahaha
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Yes, I often have to remind myself of speaker louder so that other people can hear me clearly even if I speak English with an accent.
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That sussuration is interesting! You’ll give me a complex for sure for everytime there are words which I’ve never heard or used! Great compilations…thanks!👍⚘
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I’ve never encountered this word before and I wonder if it is already archaic. It sounds interesting.
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