Oracy

What is Oracy?

noun

the ability to express oneself fluently and grammatically in speech.

ORIGIN 1960s: from Latin os, or- ‘mouth,’ on the pattern of literacy.

We hear a lot about literacy, a little about numeracy, but nothing at all about oracy, in the context of education.

See eloquence

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