Some winners may have difficulty delivering their speech in person.

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Dr Turner's condition, which also afflicted comedian Dudley Moore, also left with her with badly slurred speech, and she had some difficulty swallowing.

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Viscount Colville of Culross, a former BBC producer and crossbencher, used his maiden speech to draw attention to the difficulty of finding paid work in the media.

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But his difficulty in giving that big speech on Europe in about a week's time is what if he's wrong on any one of those ifs?

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It seems that dyslexics may have particular difficulty in processing rhythmic patterns in speech.

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Computers have little difficulty putting data files back together again in the right order, but speech is altogether trickier.

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That difficulty was underscored early in his papacy when the pope delivered a 2007 speech to scholars on the relationship between faith and reason.

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All of these clashes serve as reminders of the difficulty of reconciling the borderless nature of the Internet with national differences on matters like privacy or freedom of speech.

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