How Now Brown Cow

How Now Brown Cow. How Now, Brown Cow AI Generated Artwork NightCafe Creator "How now brown cow" is a phrase used in elocution teaching since at least 1926 [1] to demonstrate the diphthong / a. Allan Ramsay, used it in his The gentle shepherd, a Scots pastoral comedy , 1725: " The auld anes think it best With the brown cow to clear their een."

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The term Brown Cow had previously been used in Scotland as a jocular name for a beer barrel And that tripping lightly stuff makes sense, since "How now, brown cow" has its origin in elocution, where the phrase was used to demonstrate properly rounded vowels

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In this sense "how now brown cow?" would be used for asking another pint in the local pub This theory, however is unsupported by any sources. Allan Ramsay, used it in his The gentle shepherd, a Scots pastoral comedy , 1725: " The auld anes think it best With the brown cow to clear their een."

How now brown cow PPT. Allan Ramsay, used it in his The gentle shepherd, a Scots pastoral comedy , 1725: " The auld anes think it best With the brown cow to clear their een." 'Brown cow' is an 18th century description for a barrel of beer

How Now Brown Cow by Tom Horonzy. In this sense "how now brown cow?" would be used for asking another pint in the local pub An early example can be found in Scottish author Allan Ramsay's play The Gentle Shepherd (1725): The auld anes think it best, With the brown cow to clear their een, Snuff, crack, and take their rest.