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So, Evelyn also achieved her goal. She worked hard, and she had an aim to become the
top most, the most famous, the most sought-after musician of the world and she did that.
She gained mastery of almost one thousand musical instruments and she is the most
popular multi percussionist of the world, she has a very busy Schedule. She has
programmes and concerts all over the world.

It is intriguing to watch Evelyn function so effortlessly without hearing.

intriguing: fascinating and curious

When you watch Evelyn work or perform so effortlessly although she cannot hear, you get
very curious because Evelyn can identify the slightest, the minutest sound made by the
musical instruments.

In our two-hour discussion she never missed a word.

Now the writer Deborah Cowley took Evelyn‟s interview which lasted for two hours and
Deborah says that Evelyn never missed a single word that she spoke.

―Men with bushy beards give me trouble,‖ she laughed.

Evelyn says that those men who have long, huge, bushy beards give her trouble. Why do
they give her trouble, because when they speak, she cannot see their lip movement as
their lips are covered with the bushy beards.

―It is not just watching the lips, it‘s the whole face,especially the eyes.‖

Evelyn says that she does not only see the lip movement of the person‟s face to make out
what the person is speaking. She sees the whole face that means the entire expression of
the face of the speaker makes Evelyn identify or know what the person is saying. She adds
the expression of the eyes helps Evelyn make out what the person sitting in front of her is
saying.

She speaks flawlessly with a Scottish lilt.

flawlessly: without a fault or mistake
lilt: a way of speaking like we say accent

The writer says that Evelyn‟s speech is flawless, and she has a Scottish accent. (As she
belongs to Scotland her voice has that accent.)

―My speech is clear because I couldhear till I was eleven,‖ she says.

Evelyn says that she can speak clearly because she had learned the language. She
studied till the age of eleven, till the time she could hear.