Speech Speech Speech is human vocal communication using language. Each language uses phonetic combinations of a limited set of perfectly articulated and individualized vowel and consonant sounds that form the sound of its words (that is, all English words sound different from all French words, even if they are the same word, e.g., "role" or "hotel"), and using those words in their semantic character as words in the lexicon of a language according to the syntactic constraints that govern lexical words' function in a sentence. In speaking, speakers perform many different intentional speech acts, e.g., informing, declaring, asking, persuading, directing, and
The Complete Farmer: Or, a General Dictionary of Husbandry citations from that work. In the preface of the first edition of "The Encyclopedia of Agriculture", John Claudius Loudon (1825) ranked "The Complete Farmer" among the foremost publications on rural matters of the early 19th century. According to Loudon: The subject of Agriculture admits of two grand divisions; the improvement and general management of landed property, which may be termed Territorial Economy; and the cultivation and treatment of its more useful animal and vegetable productions, which is called Husbandry, or Agriculture in a more limited sense of the term." "The Complete Farmer" embraced both of these departments. Loudon describes this