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Speech vs Spiel - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between speech and spiel

is that speech is the faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the ability to speak or to use vocalizations to communicate while spiel is a lengthy and extravagant speech or argument usually intended to persuade.

As a verb spiel is

to talk at length.

speech

English

Noun

(wikipedia speech)
  • (label) The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the ability to speak or to use vocalizations to communicate.
  • * , chapter=12
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech . In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
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  • (label) A session of speaking; a long oral message given publicly usually by one person.
  • * (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
  • The constant design of these orators, in all their speeches , was to drive some one particular point.
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  • A style of speaking.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-04-21, volume=411, issue=8884, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Subtle effects , passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.}}
  • A dialect or language.
  • * Bible, (w) iii. 6
  • people of a strange speech
  • Talk; mention; rumour.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • The dukedid of me demand / What was the speech among the Londoners / Concerning the French journey.

    Derived terms

    * after-dinner speech * byspeech * figure of speech * pressure of speech * pressured speech * speech recognition * speechwriter

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    spiel

    English

    Alternative forms

    * shpeal, schpeal * shpiel, schpiel * schpeel

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A lengthy and extravagant speech or argument usually intended to persuade.
  • *1910 , Irving Berlin,
  • *:I'd love to be there with a real pretty spiel
  • *:But three little words can explain how I feel
  • *20th century , Theodore Roethke, The Auction
  • *:The spiel ran on; the sale was brief and brisk;
  • *:The bargains fell to bidders, one by one.
  • *:Hope flushed my cheekbones with a scarlet disk.
  • *:Old neighbors nudged each other at the fun.
  • A fast excuse or sales pitch.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To talk at length.
  • Usage notes

    In the United States spiel is used to describe the protean rap music vocalizations in the 1960s, for example as used by The Last Poets. It is also used by Lenny Bruce to describe his beat era comedy routines. In Scotland it is used in Scots or Scottish English linguistic contexts, for example in the expression "wheesht yer spiel"'', meaning ''"shut up" . It is also used to refer to a curling match held between members of the same club or community, as opposed to a bonspiel which refers to a curling match between teams, clubs or communities.

    Derived terms

    *spieler

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