Show PUZZLE IN PRONUNCIATION Test for People TV Who ho Think Th They Thy y Know Snow the th Dictionary y From the New York Times The following following following fol fol- fol- fol lowing episode has no literary value to commend It but it will prove a very clever puzzle to any assemblage as a test of the ability of people to pronounce pronounce pronounce pro pro- readily and correctly many common words of their native tongue The list which contains no words of disputed pronunciation is as follows An interesting Inquiry took place in inthe inthe inthe the court of oyer and terminer some sometime sometime sometime time ago Indisputable evidence was given toward proving that a heinous incident had taken place during a public public public pub pub- lic pageant It seems that a pretty girl rather Juvenile in appearance having an extraordinary head bead of hair like an Albino represented Thalia and sat on a pedestal erected on one of the floats The procession was directing its course down the mall man when tho the attention attention attention at at- of the onlookers was drawn to the excited conduct of one of the tho spectators spectators spectators spec spec- who had fixed her eyes upon the tiara set with Jewels in the form of ofa a caret which Thalia wore upon her head as she sat lIat In what seemed to b be beher her wonted attitude of nonchalance and leisure This person was afterward afterward afterward after after- ward shown to be a maniacal laundress whose squalor and detestation and hideous hideous hideous hid hid- grimaces w were wre e all unnoticed b by bythe bythe the mock goddess What vagary bade this reptile turn tun- her servile eyes full tun of at rapine on t the e beautiful maiden it is hard to say sar but suddenly under pretense pre tense of seeing something on the ground she zhe produced a hiatus in the crowd and thus obtained precedence of all aU Simultaneously with her appearance appearance appearance ap ap- ap- ap the van drove past She then filled the air with gross raillery and began to promulgate anarchism society's society's socie socie- tys ty's lack of probity and general predilection predilection predilection pre pre- of ot politicians for patronage Then she besought her audience hear her dilate on the glaciers of the Alps the ruins of Pompeii the female franchise franchise fran fran- chise the Pleiades and her patron saint She was evidently demented and the flow of her appeared endless Suddenly she raised a pestle which had bad been hidden under her shawl and threw it directly at the vision on the girls girl's head Thereupon a flaccid lithographer who was cutting a swath as a tribune on on the following van grasped a seine and threw it over the gaunt old hag so that her efforts to escape were futile and she became as docile as at a a lamb The of the affair lay In the way the girl bore the ordeal In court the virago gave an alias instead of at her own name Her defense defense defense de de- was that of vaccine whose presence presence presence pres pres- ence as shown by br a arm to together together together to- to gether with desuetude in the platter matter atter of ot personal freedom had produced an i obsession which decreed the Irrevocable irrevocable irrevocable I cable death of the girl An inventory of her belongings was made and she was then sent to an asylum as a victim victim victim vic vic- tim of ot acute homicidal mania |