Change: home 6/12/2006Basses and Sopranos Should Avoid This Virus: Bell’s PalsyA few weeks ago I was desperately trying to eliminate plosives and fricatives from my speech.Plosives are the sounds you make when you pinch your lips together and explode air behind them: P-P-P-P-P and B-B-B-B-B.Fricatives are   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 181)

Change:  The right side of my face was paralyzed.The doctor diagnosed Bell’s Palsy, a flareup of an old virus that paralyzes the facial nerves for a couple of months.A couple of months! For a gregarious singer, this was a calamity. I gained a new appreciation for consonants.next page   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 180)

Change: Created by Katharine.Hadow Jun 12 2006, 1:49 PM EDT for: no reason given