For the New Year our initial intention had been to write about Errol Flynn and his attraction to Tantric Sex or, alternatively, the time I saw a stereotypical hot beach babe at poolside reading THE BOUNDS OF SENSE by P.F. Strawson, but upon slight reconsideration we're going to install a short exercise in intonation and pronunciation.

Note how the meaning changes with the emphasis:

*I* didn't say he beat his dog.

I *didn't* say he beat his dog.

I didn't *say* he beat his dog.

I didn't say *he* beat his dog.

I didn't say he *beat* his dog.

I didn't say he beat *his* dog.

I didn't say he beat his *dog*.

Tally ho.