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:''For the [[Cornbugs]] album, see [[How Now Brown Cow]].'' |
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'''"How now brown cow"''' is a phrase used in [[elocution]] teaching to demonstrate [[Roundedness|rounded]] [[vowel]] sounds. Each "ow" sound in the phrase represents an individual [[diphthong]]. The phrase does not have an explicit meaning [[List_of_Latin_phrases_%28P%E2%80%93Z%29#P|per se]] but can be used as a light-hearted greeting.<ref name= "Phrases">http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/188800.html</ref> Although the exact origins of the phrase are unclear, it can be dated to at least [[1942]] in the [[United States]].<ref name= "Phrases"/> In [[February]] of that year the [[Maryland]] newspaper ''The Capital'' mentioned the phrase when discussing a famous [[actor|thespian's]] voice: |
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[[Laird Cregar]], now contributing his booming voice to 'Ten Gentlemen from West Point': explains how he got it. When he first tried out for the Pasadena Community Playhouse his voice wouldn't carry past the front rows. Coach Belle Kennedy had him declaim 'How, Now, Brown Cow? and The Rain in Spain Still Stains' - over and over.<ref name= "Phrases"/> |
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