Glorious, Stentorious RBG

Stentorious (okay, it's stentorian, but I like stentorious) : extremely loud <stentorian tones> (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)

There are so many ways you can hear Justice Ginsburg speak--all from the comfort of your own home. You might listen to her questioning lawyers during oral arguments at the Supreme Court: click here, for example, for the audio from Vance v. Ball State University, a workplace discrimination case. Or here for Obergefell v. Hodges, the marriage-equality case. For video of a 2014 interview with Katie Couric, click here; here for C-SPAN video of her visit to her grade school in Brooklyn; here for Irin Carmon's 2015 interview. You can even listen to Professor Ginsburg arguing her first case as a young lawyer at the Supreme Court in 1973 here.And if you do listen, you will find that she is not, in fact, EXTREMELY LOUD. Her voice is rather small. You want to lean forward to make sure you don't miss anything. So, no, RBG is not stentorian (or stentorious!) in the literal sense. But metaphorically? Oh yes. If I may paraphrase one of the reviews of I Dissent: speak softly and carry a big legal pad.(Photo credit: Jim Davis/Boston Globe)Glorious, Stentorious RBG. Stayed tuned for Non-Injurious RBG.