哈哈,我说发音,对外国人来说简直就是折磨, 你说写作,两回事,

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Winston Churchill was not considered as one of the all time most influential speakers, but the most influential speaker. Few knew that as a youngster, the man whose soaring oratory would mean so much to so many suffered from a stammer, a speech disorder that is notoriously difficult to overcome.  But the strains of war showed even on the man called Britain's Bulldog. He suffered a mild heart attack in December 1941,  two years later, he contracted pneumonia.  

Once Churchill was speaking in Parliament and was slightly muddled and incoherent in his speech. A rather unattractive lady MP on the opposite benches declared to Churchill: 'Sir, you are drunk!'. To which he replied 'Madame that may be true, but in the morning I shall be sober whereas you will still be ugly'.

His  war time speech: "We Shall Fight on the Beaches", is one of his most inspiring speeaches

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