In honor of my mother, Damaris Sayce, a retired librarian who passed on her love of words to me, I am initiating the Word of the Day on the Talk blog. Each day, I’ll post a new word, give the definition and use it in a sentence. If I pick up the word from something I’m reading, I’ll feature the material in which I found it.
I encourage you to comment, submit your own words, or chastise me if I’m using the word incorrectly. Here it goes:
STENTORIAN- (adjective) loud and powerful projection of a person’s voice.
“Compared to this kind of personal, intimate, knowlegable, and highly engaged voice, which is emerging bottom-up on the Internet today, top-down corporate communications come across as stale and stentorian - the boring, authoritarian voice of command and control.”
From the preface written by Christopher Locke to “The Cluetrain Manifesto.”
I thought this word was particularly fitting for the launch of the Word of the Day, since Talk is dedicated to helping its clients “find their voice.” Do you have a stentorian voice? If so, post a comment below!
