Today's OneWord: Speak

My dog wouldn't speak when I told her to speak. I tried everything. Shakespeare, Browning, Lord Byron. She didn't think highly of the poets. Unless said poet clawed out of his grave and brought a chewy bone with him.

So I stuck to basic requests. A bark or something. Anything in the canine language. She just rolled over and waited for me to rub her belly. Not a single sound from her throat.