0 by one person telling another in speech, not in writing -- mundtlig
She got the information by word of mouth.
A lie can be told on a form just as well as by word of mouth.
Some manage to find out by word of mouth from other young people, others through organisations which have outreach workers.
So reports would tend to be superficial and unreliable, and the employer would be driven to supplementing them by word of mouth.
Ten thousand working men came together, summoned simply by word of mouth.
Attracting teenagers from throughout the city, the dances moved from barrio to barrio every weekend, and news of upcoming aguelulos was usually spread by word of mouth.
And while most of these newly coined names are circulated by word of mouth, some are also institutionalized in maps, local news reports, and street signs.
This seems to have begun quite suddenly, and to have spread rapidly; some people perhaps had the impression that the birds were spreading the news by word of mouth.
Fortunately, contract theory diffused quickly by word of mouth and soon attracted the interest of major departments, which put some of the early papers on their macroeconomics reading lists.
