"I always hated my accent growing up, often trying to over-enunciate words to prevent sounding like the people around me, " she remembers.

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But the reality is this: you need to speak solemnly, deliberately and enunciate properly in order to reduce the number of errors you see.

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Mr Blair is the first prime minister since the second world war to enunciate a detailed philosophy of British power in the modern world.

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Tap a word to make Shatner strongly enunciate it.

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Criminologists say that fear of crime often acts as a psychological sponge absorbing other anxieties that are hard to enunciate, such as concern over rapid social change, immigration, deteriorating values, fraying communities and so forth.

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Exposure to parents and other relatives who speak Korean has given Kim some knowledge of the language -- she can generally understand the subject matter of the conversation -- but she can't read it and doesn't enunciate well.

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Remember to enunciate and speak clearly.

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