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Suppose you are going to give a lecture or simply you are going to explain something to a group of people. On the other hand, you have got a cold and your voice has changed, so you want to apologize for this change in your voice which may affect your lecture.
What's the best word or phrase to describe this change in the voice?
One might say:
I'm sorry if my voice is not good (or it's not as usual)
I have found Hoarseness which refers to abnormal voice changes, but I'm wondering if I can use it in this situation (a voice change because of a cold) and say:
I'm sorry for my hoarse voice.
If not, what's the best word or phrase to say this (idiomatically)?
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Suppose you are going to give a lecture or simply you are going to explain something to a group of people. On the other hand, you have got a cold and your voice has changed, so you want to apologize for this change in your voice which may affect your lecture.
What's the best word or phrase to describe this change in the voice?
One might say:
I'm sorry if my voice is not good (or it's not as usual)
I have found Hoarseness which refers to abnormal voice changes, but I'm wondering if I can use it in this situation (a voice change because of a cold) and say:
I'm sorry for my hoarse voice.
If not, what's the best word or phrase to say this (idiomatically)?
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Suppose you are going to give a lecture or simply you are going to explain something to a group of people. On the other hand, you have got a cold and your voice has changed, so you want to apologize for this change in your voice which may affect your lecture.
What's the best word or phrase to describe this change in the voice?
One might say:
I'm sorry if my voice is not good (or it's not as usual)
I have found Hoarseness which refers to abnormal voice changes, but I'm wondering if I can use it in this situation (a voice change because of a cold) and say:
I'm sorry for my hoarse voice.
If not, what's the best word or phrase to say this (idiomatically)?
word-request phrase-request
asked 2 hours ago
helen
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Suppose you are going to give a lecture or simply you are going to explain something to a group of people. On the other hand, you have got a cold and your voice has changed, so you want to apologize for this change in your voice which may affect your lecture.
What's the best word or phrase to describe this change in the voice?
One might say:
I'm sorry if my voice is not good (or it's not as usual)
I have found Hoarseness which refers to abnormal voice changes, but I'm wondering if I can use it in this situation (a voice change because of a cold) and say:
I'm sorry for my hoarse voice.
If not, what's the best word or phrase to say this (idiomatically)?
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Idiomatically, I would just say;
"Please excuse my hoarseness today, I have been suffering from a cold."
That is short and sweet, and explains the situation, but does not place undue emphasis on it.
answered 1 hour ago
Msfolly
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I agree. A possible synonym is raspy, as in something like: "I'm sorry my voice is so raspy; I'm getting over a cold."
– J.R.♦
1 hour ago
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I think it is useful to say yes, when an OP puts something idiomatically. "my hoarse voice." is fine.....
– Lambie
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A number of ways to describe a hoarse or rough voice come to mind.
We say someone has a husky voice. Yes, same spelling as the dog. No, it doesn't mean they sound like a dog or stare at you with a doge smile. It means their voice is hoarse and dry. It could be their natural voice or a result of illness or emotion.
I'm sorry my voice is husky from a cold.
Also you could use throaty, croaky. I would say throaty implies a deepness in sound, coming from the throat. Croaky similarly suggests the voice is low and deep.
I'm sorry my voice is kind of throaty/croaky today from a cold.
More commonly, raspy also works.
Hey did you hear the teacher today in class? Her voice was so raspy.
answered 1 hour ago
Eddie Kal
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Croaky? [idiom: to have a frog in one's throat].That is really funny. Yours are all literary. And husky voice has another cliché meaning for a type of male voice....
– Lambie
1 hour ago
@Lambie Really? You call raspy and throaty literary? Even husky is a very common everyday word. I hear it even on YouTube channels every so often.
– Eddie Kal
57 mins ago
@Lambie Re: husky. What you are referring to is actually polysemes of the word husky. Yes, they are related, and one is affected by the other. I feel like I should just invoke dictionaries: M-W's full and exact definition: "hoarse with or as if with emotion". Etymologically speaking, this definition has a much longer history than the other one. I could talk about this in chat if you are interested.
– Eddie Kal
49 mins ago
He has a husky voice, yes. But, if a woman goes to give a speech, she will not say: I'm sorry for my husky voice. Or "throaty voice". Come on.....of course the word is common. What is literary is to apply husky to a hoarse voice due to illness. To be hoarse with emotion, yes, that is "literary". The question was about what one might say, not what one may write. "Polysemes" [ahem] in English are different meanings of a word.
– Lambie
45 mins ago
@Lambie Um, the M-W link is very clear on my point about husky's polysemes and about the definition. Why not click on it and see for yourself? As for the other words, you said "all", then conveniently forgot raspy.
– Eddie Kal
40 mins ago
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Idiomatically, I would just say;
"Please excuse my hoarseness today, I have been suffering from a cold."
That is short and sweet, and explains the situation, but does not place undue emphasis on it.
answered 1 hour ago
Msfolly
470211
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I agree. A possible synonym is raspy, as in something like: "I'm sorry my voice is so raspy; I'm getting over a cold."
– J.R.♦
1 hour ago
1
I think it is useful to say yes, when an OP puts something idiomatically. "my hoarse voice." is fine.....
– Lambie
1 hour ago
add a comment |Â
up vote
3
down vote
Idiomatically, I would just say;
"Please excuse my hoarseness today, I have been suffering from a cold."
That is short and sweet, and explains the situation, but does not place undue emphasis on it.
answered 1 hour ago
Msfolly
470211
1
I agree. A possible synonym is raspy, as in something like: "I'm sorry my voice is so raspy; I'm getting over a cold."
– J.R.♦
1 hour ago
1
I think it is useful to say yes, when an OP puts something idiomatically. "my hoarse voice." is fine.....
– Lambie
1 hour ago
add a comment |Â
up vote
3
down vote
up vote
3
down vote
Idiomatically, I would just say;
"Please excuse my hoarseness today, I have been suffering from a cold."
That is short and sweet, and explains the situation, but does not place undue emphasis on it.
answered 1 hour ago
Msfolly
470211
Idiomatically, I would just say;
"Please excuse my hoarseness today, I have been suffering from a cold."
That is short and sweet, and explains the situation, but does not place undue emphasis on it.
answered 1 hour ago
Msfolly
470211
answered 1 hour ago
Msfolly
470211
answered 1 hour ago
Msfolly
470211
answered 1 hour ago
Msfolly
470211
470211
1
I agree. A possible synonym is raspy, as in something like: "I'm sorry my voice is so raspy; I'm getting over a cold."
– J.R.♦
1 hour ago
1
I think it is useful to say yes, when an OP puts something idiomatically. "my hoarse voice." is fine.....
– Lambie
1 hour ago
add a comment |Â
1
I agree. A possible synonym is raspy, as in something like: "I'm sorry my voice is so raspy; I'm getting over a cold."
– J.R.♦
1 hour ago
1
I think it is useful to say yes, when an OP puts something idiomatically. "my hoarse voice." is fine.....
– Lambie
1 hour ago
1
1
I agree. A possible synonym is raspy, as in something like: "I'm sorry my voice is so raspy; I'm getting over a cold."
– J.R.♦
1 hour ago
I agree. A possible synonym is raspy, as in something like: "I'm sorry my voice is so raspy; I'm getting over a cold."
– J.R.♦
1 hour ago
1
1
I think it is useful to say yes, when an OP puts something idiomatically. "my hoarse voice." is fine.....
– Lambie
1 hour ago
I think it is useful to say yes, when an OP puts something idiomatically. "my hoarse voice." is fine.....
– Lambie
1 hour ago
add a comment |Â
up vote
1
down vote
A number of ways to describe a hoarse or rough voice come to mind.
We say someone has a husky voice. Yes, same spelling as the dog. No, it doesn't mean they sound like a dog or stare at you with a doge smile. It means their voice is hoarse and dry. It could be their natural voice or a result of illness or emotion.
I'm sorry my voice is husky from a cold.
Also you could use throaty, croaky. I would say throaty implies a deepness in sound, coming from the throat. Croaky similarly suggests the voice is low and deep.
I'm sorry my voice is kind of throaty/croaky today from a cold.
More commonly, raspy also works.
Hey did you hear the teacher today in class? Her voice was so raspy.
answered 1 hour ago
Eddie Kal
3,92321440
1
Croaky? [idiom: to have a frog in one's throat].That is really funny. Yours are all literary. And husky voice has another cliché meaning for a type of male voice....
– Lambie
1 hour ago
@Lambie Really? You call raspy and throaty literary? Even husky is a very common everyday word. I hear it even on YouTube channels every so often.
– Eddie Kal
57 mins ago
@Lambie Re: husky. What you are referring to is actually polysemes of the word husky. Yes, they are related, and one is affected by the other. I feel like I should just invoke dictionaries: M-W's full and exact definition: "hoarse with or as if with emotion". Etymologically speaking, this definition has a much longer history than the other one. I could talk about this in chat if you are interested.
– Eddie Kal
49 mins ago
He has a husky voice, yes. But, if a woman goes to give a speech, she will not say: I'm sorry for my husky voice. Or "throaty voice". Come on.....of course the word is common. What is literary is to apply husky to a hoarse voice due to illness. To be hoarse with emotion, yes, that is "literary". The question was about what one might say, not what one may write. "Polysemes" [ahem] in English are different meanings of a word.
– Lambie
45 mins ago
@Lambie Um, the M-W link is very clear on my point about husky's polysemes and about the definition. Why not click on it and see for yourself? As for the other words, you said "all", then conveniently forgot raspy.
– Eddie Kal
40 mins ago
add a comment |Â
up vote
1
down vote
A number of ways to describe a hoarse or rough voice come to mind.
We say someone has a husky voice. Yes, same spelling as the dog. No, it doesn't mean they sound like a dog or stare at you with a doge smile. It means their voice is hoarse and dry. It could be their natural voice or a result of illness or emotion.
I'm sorry my voice is husky from a cold.
Also you could use throaty, croaky. I would say throaty implies a deepness in sound, coming from the throat. Croaky similarly suggests the voice is low and deep.
I'm sorry my voice is kind of throaty/croaky today from a cold.
More commonly, raspy also works.
Hey did you hear the teacher today in class? Her voice was so raspy.
answered 1 hour ago
Eddie Kal
3,92321440
1
Croaky? [idiom: to have a frog in one's throat].That is really funny. Yours are all literary. And husky voice has another cliché meaning for a type of male voice....
– Lambie
1 hour ago
@Lambie Really? You call raspy and throaty literary? Even husky is a very common everyday word. I hear it even on YouTube channels every so often.
– Eddie Kal
57 mins ago
@Lambie Re: husky. What you are referring to is actually polysemes of the word husky. Yes, they are related, and one is affected by the other. I feel like I should just invoke dictionaries: M-W's full and exact definition: "hoarse with or as if with emotion". Etymologically speaking, this definition has a much longer history than the other one. I could talk about this in chat if you are interested.
– Eddie Kal
49 mins ago
He has a husky voice, yes. But, if a woman goes to give a speech, she will not say: I'm sorry for my husky voice. Or "throaty voice". Come on.....of course the word is common. What is literary is to apply husky to a hoarse voice due to illness. To be hoarse with emotion, yes, that is "literary". The question was about what one might say, not what one may write. "Polysemes" [ahem] in English are different meanings of a word.
– Lambie
45 mins ago
@Lambie Um, the M-W link is very clear on my point about husky's polysemes and about the definition. Why not click on it and see for yourself? As for the other words, you said "all", then conveniently forgot raspy.
– Eddie Kal
40 mins ago
add a comment |Â
up vote
1
down vote
up vote
1
down vote
A number of ways to describe a hoarse or rough voice come to mind.
We say someone has a husky voice. Yes, same spelling as the dog. No, it doesn't mean they sound like a dog or stare at you with a doge smile. It means their voice is hoarse and dry. It could be their natural voice or a result of illness or emotion.
I'm sorry my voice is husky from a cold.
Also you could use throaty, croaky. I would say throaty implies a deepness in sound, coming from the throat. Croaky similarly suggests the voice is low and deep.
I'm sorry my voice is kind of throaty/croaky today from a cold.
More commonly, raspy also works.
Hey did you hear the teacher today in class? Her voice was so raspy.
answered 1 hour ago
Eddie Kal
3,92321440
A number of ways to describe a hoarse or rough voice come to mind.
We say someone has a husky voice. Yes, same spelling as the dog. No, it doesn't mean they sound like a dog or stare at you with a doge smile. It means their voice is hoarse and dry. It could be their natural voice or a result of illness or emotion.
I'm sorry my voice is husky from a cold.
Also you could use throaty, croaky. I would say throaty implies a deepness in sound, coming from the throat. Croaky similarly suggests the voice is low and deep.
I'm sorry my voice is kind of throaty/croaky today from a cold.
More commonly, raspy also works.
Hey did you hear the teacher today in class? Her voice was so raspy.
answered 1 hour ago
Eddie Kal
3,92321440
edited 1 hour ago
answered 1 hour ago
Eddie Kal
3,92321440
answered 1 hour ago
Eddie Kal
3,92321440
answered 1 hour ago
Eddie Kal
3,92321440
3,92321440
1
Croaky? [idiom: to have a frog in one's throat].That is really funny. Yours are all literary. And husky voice has another cliché meaning for a type of male voice....
– Lambie
1 hour ago
@Lambie Really? You call raspy and throaty literary? Even husky is a very common everyday word. I hear it even on YouTube channels every so often.
– Eddie Kal
57 mins ago
@Lambie Re: husky. What you are referring to is actually polysemes of the word husky. Yes, they are related, and one is affected by the other. I feel like I should just invoke dictionaries: M-W's full and exact definition: "hoarse with or as if with emotion". Etymologically speaking, this definition has a much longer history than the other one. I could talk about this in chat if you are interested.
– Eddie Kal
49 mins ago
He has a husky voice, yes. But, if a woman goes to give a speech, she will not say: I'm sorry for my husky voice. Or "throaty voice". Come on.....of course the word is common. What is literary is to apply husky to a hoarse voice due to illness. To be hoarse with emotion, yes, that is "literary". The question was about what one might say, not what one may write. "Polysemes" [ahem] in English are different meanings of a word.
– Lambie
45 mins ago
@Lambie Um, the M-W link is very clear on my point about husky's polysemes and about the definition. Why not click on it and see for yourself? As for the other words, you said "all", then conveniently forgot raspy.
– Eddie Kal
40 mins ago
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1
Croaky? [idiom: to have a frog in one's throat].That is really funny. Yours are all literary. And husky voice has another cliché meaning for a type of male voice....
– Lambie
1 hour ago
@Lambie Really? You call raspy and throaty literary? Even husky is a very common everyday word. I hear it even on YouTube channels every so often.
– Eddie Kal
57 mins ago
@Lambie Re: husky. What you are referring to is actually polysemes of the word husky. Yes, they are related, and one is affected by the other. I feel like I should just invoke dictionaries: M-W's full and exact definition: "hoarse with or as if with emotion". Etymologically speaking, this definition has a much longer history than the other one. I could talk about this in chat if you are interested.
– Eddie Kal
49 mins ago
He has a husky voice, yes. But, if a woman goes to give a speech, she will not say: I'm sorry for my husky voice. Or "throaty voice". Come on.....of course the word is common. What is literary is to apply husky to a hoarse voice due to illness. To be hoarse with emotion, yes, that is "literary". The question was about what one might say, not what one may write. "Polysemes" [ahem] in English are different meanings of a word.
– Lambie
45 mins ago
@Lambie Um, the M-W link is very clear on my point about husky's polysemes and about the definition. Why not click on it and see for yourself? As for the other words, you said "all", then conveniently forgot raspy.
– Eddie Kal
40 mins ago
1
1
Croaky? [idiom: to have a frog in one's throat].That is really funny. Yours are all literary. And husky voice has another cliché meaning for a type of male voice....
– Lambie
1 hour ago
Croaky? [idiom: to have a frog in one's throat].That is really funny. Yours are all literary. And husky voice has another cliché meaning for a type of male voice....
– Lambie
1 hour ago
@Lambie Really? You call raspy and throaty literary? Even husky is a very common everyday word. I hear it even on YouTube channels every so often.
– Eddie Kal
57 mins ago
@Lambie Really? You call raspy and throaty literary? Even husky is a very common everyday word. I hear it even on YouTube channels every so often.
– Eddie Kal
57 mins ago
@Lambie Re: husky. What you are referring to is actually polysemes of the word husky. Yes, they are related, and one is affected by the other. I feel like I should just invoke dictionaries: M-W's full and exact definition: "hoarse with or as if with emotion". Etymologically speaking, this definition has a much longer history than the other one. I could talk about this in chat if you are interested.
– Eddie Kal
49 mins ago
@Lambie Re: husky. What you are referring to is actually polysemes of the word husky. Yes, they are related, and one is affected by the other. I feel like I should just invoke dictionaries: M-W's full and exact definition: "hoarse with or as if with emotion". Etymologically speaking, this definition has a much longer history than the other one. I could talk about this in chat if you are interested.
– Eddie Kal
49 mins ago
He has a husky voice, yes. But, if a woman goes to give a speech, she will not say: I'm sorry for my husky voice. Or "throaty voice". Come on.....of course the word is common. What is literary is to apply husky to a hoarse voice due to illness. To be hoarse with emotion, yes, that is "literary". The question was about what one might say, not what one may write. "Polysemes" [ahem] in English are different meanings of a word.
– Lambie
45 mins ago
He has a husky voice, yes. But, if a woman goes to give a speech, she will not say: I'm sorry for my husky voice. Or "throaty voice". Come on.....of course the word is common. What is literary is to apply husky to a hoarse voice due to illness. To be hoarse with emotion, yes, that is "literary". The question was about what one might say, not what one may write. "Polysemes" [ahem] in English are different meanings of a word.
– Lambie
45 mins ago
@Lambie Um, the M-W link is very clear on my point about husky's polysemes and about the definition. Why not click on it and see for yourself? As for the other words, you said "all", then conveniently forgot raspy.
– Eddie Kal
40 mins ago
@Lambie Um, the M-W link is very clear on my point about husky's polysemes and about the definition. Why not click on it and see for yourself? As for the other words, you said "all", then conveniently forgot raspy.
– Eddie Kal
40 mins ago
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