unaccustomed as I am . . .

[Frank Abate]

Barry P posted:

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UNACCUSTOMED AS I AM TO PUBLIC SPEAKING

   10 June 1927, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. RP2 photo caption:
"UNACCUSTOMED AS I AM TO PUBLIC SPEAKING":
   EDDIE CANTOR
Says a Few Words to the Graduates of the Winter Camp fo Anemic Children.

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The ancients had a similar sentiment, and considered this a rhetorical
trick.  I can't think of the term or give you the locus classicus, but I
believe the idea was discussed by Cicero, the Roman orator.


Frank Abate