I have been thinking of writing this bit for quite a few days now, but somehow could not get my teeth into it to really start, pun intended, as I am a toothless man!
Some people are good at public speaking and making speeches! To a large extent, their good voice contributes to it, along with that if they, they have good tone, diction, modulation, delivery the public speaking becomes so much more effective.
When all these, good voice, good tone, diction, modulation, delivery style get together the person becomes a very good orator and the listeners are held spellbound by the very quality of their sound. Of course, you can not talk bunkum and hope to keep the listeners interested or spellbound only because you have a good voice. Good subject and text of the speech are of course important!
It is God's gift.
As time passes and the person gets older one of the things that happen is his teeth become weak, they develop cavities and in general ache, ( toothache is something people can do without.) start falling or have gone beyond retrieval and have to be pulled out.
Only old age may not be wholly responsible for the state of affairs as they may be the wages of very poor oral hygiene and trying to keep away from the toothbrush and the toothpaste, in younger days !!!! If this happens to be front teeth, the first casualty is looks and the second SPEECH.
The presence of front teeth is very very essential for pronunciations and articulating certain sounds, specifically associated with words having " S " or SH " in them.
While speaking, when words with this sound are spoken, they do not come out correct sounding and escaping air from the gaps in the front teeth imparts a whistling sort of noise rather than, instead of, the correct sound.
This whistling sound while speaking is very embarrassing.
This is nothing, in fact, more embarrassment is in store which is very sudden and takes you totally by surprise. It is the embarrassment of the listener getting some fine saliva spray through the gap left by missing front teeth in his face when get a bit close while you earnestly want to emphasise a very serious point.
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