Citations:voicism

English citations of voicism

Noun: "discrimination against and negative perception of people based on how their voices sound"

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• 1995 — Pam Ayres, "Permit me my wrinkles", The Independent, 13 October 1995:

  Yet I hardly ever see a reference to myself in the press without some put-down relating to my voice. Make way for the Bucolic Bard, the Rustic Rhymster, the Shakespeare of the Shires. It is irritating after 20 years. But, Mrs Shephard, despite all my years of fighting "voicism", I would not want all the wrinkles ironed out of our language.

• 1999 — "Preserve those plums", The Independent, 8 October 1999:

  Boris Johnson, the self confessedly plum-voiced editor of The Spectator, has been sacked from presenting a BBC Radio 4 programme. He blames "the tyrannical forces of vocal correctness". They no longer want him on The Week In Westminster, he claims, because Radio 4 controller James Boyle is guilty of "voicism". Conspiracy theorists may see in this yet another move to rid the BBC of its most English voices.

• 1999 — Michael Vestey, "Too posh for Saturday", The Spectator, 16 October 1999:

  Indeed, we assembled last Sunday for rabbit casserole and calling them to order I raised what Boris Johnson described last week as 'voicism' at the BBC. No one minded posh voices any more than they objected to good, intelligent regional voices.

• 2002 April 12, Michael Calwell, “Re: Anyone listen to 'Today'?”, in uk.media.radio.bbc-r4‎^[1] (Usenet):

  This is what I love about R4 - lookism goes out the window. But in comes voicism. Don't even consider a career in radio if you're from Toxteth or the Gorbals.

• 2002 — Lynne Sherriff, "Take the sting out of 'voicism'", The Hamilton Spectator, 10 May 2002:

  Helping children to communicate more effectively when they are young should reduce the effects of "voicism" and hopefully help others see the child, not the speech problem.