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Show Linguistic "While motoring through Kurope this summer," writes Dr. Itussell E. Simpson of I'asadena, "my family and I had many laughs at. English as It was spoken by the people of the various countries. ' "We took a new flivver with us and in Germany, on n rough road off the beaten path, the car stopped and I could not find the trouble. When the garage man arrived, he found a wire from the distributor had come loose and his explanation was that the 'strasse,' or street, being rough, made the flivver nervous." Los Angeles An-geles Times. |