| No. | Item | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | accented | having a noticeable accent |
| 2. | affected | artificially put on |
| 3. | airy | light and breath-filled sounding |
| 4. | animated | lively in tone and rhythm |
| 5. | authentic | genuine and natural sounding |
| 6. | authoritative | sounding confident and convincing |
| 7. | blunt | direct and not softened |
| 8. | brisk | quick and energetic sounding |
| 9. | broad | strong and easily noticed |
| 10. | broken | imperfect and interrupted sounding |
| 11. | burry | having a burr sound |
| 12. | clipped | short and sharply cut |
| 13. | closed | with tighter vowel sounds |
| 14. | colloquial | informal and everyday sounding |
| 15. | commanding | authoritative and strong sounding |
| 16. | confident | assured and steady sounding |
| 17. | consonantal | marked by consonant sounds |
| 18. | dated | no longer current sounding |
| 19. | deliberate | careful and unhurried sounding |
| 20. | distinct | clearly different in sound |
| 21. | drawling | slow with stretched vowels |
| 22. | drawn-out | extended in sound length |
| 23. | earthy | natural and grounded sounding |
| 24. | effortless | smooth and easy sounding |
| 25. | expressive | showing feeling clearly |
| 26. | faint | barely noticeable in speech |
| 27. | flat | lacking much pitch variation |
| 28. | folksy | informal and homey sounding |
| 29. | foreign | from another language background |
| 30. | formal | careful and socially polished |
| 31. | gentle | soft and mild sounding |
| 32. | guttural | deep in the throat |
| 33. | halting | stopping and starting often |
| 34. | hard | firm and forceful sounding |
| 35. | heavy | pronounced and hard to miss |
| 36. | hesitant | uncertain and pausing often |
| 37. | homespun | plain and rural sounding |
| 38. | hushed | soft and subdued sounding |
| 39. | idiosyncratic | distinctively personal sounding |
| 40. | individual | unique to one person |
| 41. | intelligible | easy enough to understand |
| 42. | labored | requiring audible effort |
| 43. | lazy | relaxed and less precise |
| 44. | lilting | light and musical sounding |
| 45. | local | belonging to the area |
| 46. | marked | clearly identifiable by sound |
| 47. | measured | carefully paced in rhythm |
| 48. | melodic | pleasantly musical sounding |
| 49. | middle-class | associated with average educated speech |
| 50. | mild | gentle and not very strong |
| 51. | monotone | with little pitch change |
| 52. | musical | rhythmic and tuneful sounding |
| 53. | nasal | sounding through the nose |
| 54. | native | sounding like a local speaker |
| 55. | natural | not forced or artificial |
| 56. | neutral | without strong regional markers |
| 57. | nonrhotic | dropping r after vowels |
| 58. | noticeable | easy to hear distinctly |
| 59. | old-fashioned | sounding from an earlier era |
| 60. | open | with open vowel sounds |
| 61. | personal | characteristic of one speaker |
| 62. | piercing | sharp and penetrating sounding |
| 63. | plummy | richly upper-class British sounding |
| 64. | posh | upper-class sounding |
| 65. | pronounced | strongly marked in speech |
| 66. | put-on | deliberately assumed, not natural |
| 67. | rapid | spoken very quickly |
| 68. | refined | polished and cultivated sounding |
| 69. | regional | typical of a particular region |
| 70. | resonant | deep and full sounding |
| 71. | rhotic | pronouncing r clearly |
| 72. | rhythmic | having a marked beat |
| 73. | rolled | with trilled r sounds |
| 74. | rounded | with full rounded vowels |
| 75. | sibilant | rich in hissing sounds |
| 76. | sing-song | having a lilting pattern |
| 77. | slight | small but still noticeable |
| 78. | slow | spoken at a low pace |
| 79. | staccato | short and separate sounding |
| 80. | standard | close to accepted norm |
| 81. | strong | clear and very noticeable |
| 82. | subtle | present but not obvious |
| 83. | taut | tight and controlled sounding |
| 84. | tense | tight and strained sounding |
| 85. | thick | very strong and marked |
| 86. | trilled | with vibrating r sounds |
| 87. | twangy | having a nasal twang |
| 88. | unclear | hard to understand clearly |
| 89. | understated | deliberately restrained sounding |
| 90. | unmarked | lacking obvious local features |
| 91. | unmistakable | impossible to confuse |
| 92. | upper-class | associated with elite speech |
| 93. | urban | typical of city speech |
| 94. | vibrant | energetic and lively sounding |
| 95. | vivid | striking and lively sounding |
| 96. | vowel-heavy | rich in vowel sounds |
| 97. | warm | pleasantly rich sounding |
| 98. | whispery | breathy like a whisper |
| 99. | working-class | associated with laboring class speech |
| 100. | youthful | sounding young and fresh |