What's the difference between elocution and locution?

Elocution


Definition:

  • (n.) Utterance by speech.
  • (n.) Oratorical or expressive delivery, including the graces of intonation, gesture, etc.; style or manner of speaking or reading in public; as, clear, impressive elocution.
  • (n.) Suitable and impressive writing or style; eloquent diction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So those of you with a strong Barnsley accent had better get elocution lessons.
  • (2) Three girls were molested within minutes of each other as they attended an elocution lesson at his home, while another was set upon as he drove her home from a tennis centre.
  • (3) This Mason was Mr Elocution, if you like, the personification of affectation and lingering insult or innuendo.
  • (4) Three girls were molested while he gave them elocution lessons; another after he invited her to sing at a supposed recording session at a BBC studio in Manchester.
  • (5) Asked why he had asked some of the girls to shower prior to elocution lessons in order to "correct their posture", to be measured and to wear very loose upper clothing, he replied: "It's a programme I have devised."
  • (6) She is glad that they did, and praises Hollander's rendition of her grandfather's spellbinding voice and perfect elocution.
  • (7) He assaulted others at his home, having invited them on the pretence of giving elocution lessons.
  • (8) Hall, now 83, attacked one of his victims within moments of her being sick, on her 13th birthday; three were molested while he gave them "elocution lessons"; another after he invited her to sing at a supposed recording session at a BBC studio in Manchester, and another girl attacked after being given a steak dinner and champagne.
  • (9) Thatcher appears, looking like a possessed marionette, her bossy elocution a declaration of intent, as if she means her voice to carry, to be heard generations on.
  • (10) He quickly progressed to the gramophone department and began presenting jazz programmes, but was thwarted by a head of variety whose objection to the sound of his voice compelled him to take elocution lessons.
  • (11) The same first a of the "aka" was selected and at its end was concatenated a voiced murmur taken from an "aga" elocution from the same speaker, and the minimum duration of the voiced murmur necessary for it to be perceived was measured.

Locution


Definition:

  • (n.) Speech or discourse; a phrase; a form or mode of expression.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mas never uses the word "independence" and it does not appear in his party, Convergència i Unió's manifesto, which instead refers to "our own state", Mas's preferred locution.
  • (2) To achieve conceptual clarity in the theory of placebogenic phenomena, this paper offers a rigorous articulation of the placebo notion, a lucid new terminology that obviates the defects intrinsic to the traditional locutions employed in the placebo literature, and a substantial revamping of A. K. Shapiro's influential prior definition of 'placebo'.
  • (3) Those leaking against Flynn, Nunes said, using a favored Trump locution, “ want the swamp to remain ”.
  • (4) In spite of its ambiguity, the use of the locution natural drug is spreading in the lay media and efforts are made to introduce it in more scientific contexts.