Show STUDY OF THE ENGliSH L LANGUAGE IN ENGlAD WORKS BOTH WAYS TO IMMENSE PROFIT OF MEN KEPI WHO NAVE HAVE MASTERED PECULIARITIES OF ACCENT Americans to Speak Like Resi Residents dents of Strand and Natives Covet Punctuation of Broadway While I Both Pay the Price I I B BY SOPHIE IRENE LOEB Copyright m 1312 by br the rr Press n Publishing company tb the New w York World I taught to forel foreigners en Americans and English people Accurate Ac Ac- Accurate AcI I curate speech perfect accent and en an elegant style stylo of ot 1 writing In English guaranteed In a n. few weeks y y In n answer ner to this r advertisement and to find out out- what was Eng American Eng Eng- lish and what was vas t English American I Ix x o t went to 83 New Oxford Ox Ox- ford tord street to take taker r cv o a a. lesson w Said Sald the manager t During Durins tho Bummer cummer months the Institute practically practical Y lives cs by teaching American visitors En English lIsh It Is English a an as It Is s spoken In England that wo we teach and we find here that nearly every American In hl his heart wants to lo speak J English with a British accent and would like to get set Into the habit of ot using tho British Idioms We get about American pupils mostly wom women n. n In the course courso of ot a summer DUmmer This year In spite of ot the presidential electors we havo have had full tull classes all aU along a I couldn't see sea exactly what the tho elections had to do with It If It they try hard most of ot our pupils considerably Improve Improve Im Im- Im- Im prove their accents In a few tew months and they tell lell us that tho the help we give Ilva them I assists them to shed a lot of tho the Amen Ameri from Crom their vocabularies The Idea of or starting these thero classes clase was suggested to us by American visitors to Loudon Wo We 0 found round a 0 number of ot Americans Ameri Amerl- cans coming comins In and asking to see ec the tho En English lIsh teachers privately for tor a 11 minute or two Thus It was that wo discovered that Ol our our- visitors wanted assistance In cultivates aUng a British accent Tho rho clas classes ell havo o been a success S from th the tho beginning II r I Is iab So th that I 1 h learned English arned many and ana American things Ono One are arc of at entirely them themI ji I two different propositions Also that In i order to be He sw wank you dont don't want to 1 o homo llomo to I go America wits with out carrYing with you an nn English accent and tho the latest I London expressions II Here re a It Nt N w One But uM My hat it is th the tho same with our own people explains the English proCessor professor pro pro fessor Cessor Mr Leonard onard Wilson by way of oC S consolation l It 1 an Englishman is on side h ho Sour isn't swank unless he gets ceU your you our Amor American a accent Of Ot course I could not get it all 1111 in one e bp t J was fill U ATe J 1 t I l J jus wa g tho the professor proCessor and antI listened closely the tho accent would go o homo home with me and not nota a a. cent nt of at duty n need d I pay on it which Ind Indeed d an Incentive c since my trunk was already too full tull for or utterance All th the time limo I kept C pt thinking If Ie mother could hear henr me now But to go so no with the lesson Jesson The Th professor proCessor suggested that I read out of oC n a newspaper r quite slows slowly and ho hI would correct me as I 1 went alon along I picked out oula outa a Ct column that seemed Interesting nn and hoped to kill two birds with ouo oue stone ston thereby but ta take tako o note m my fellow tello suf- suf ferrers from America I only read one on paragraph of at that whole column bo- bo tho the professors professor ors or's s ear car ar was pitched In it Inthe the ko ke key y of ot C sharp and he did see over Ewer movement of or my lips and heard every vel syllable And my word I never knew there thero were so 50 many s syllables In ono paragraph pare para graph As I read tho the first sentence the Pro Pro- fe fessor sor remarked Dont sing sInE it IU At my 01 look of ot mortification ho consoled con con- consoled soled mo me by saying You cant can't help that All Americans do It It s c with the language But g t l It out of or your our nose nose ho continued When V hen you OU come corne here you must get Iet It In tho the throat Wo Yo came to tho the word New York An Englishman trying to teach me how hove to pronounce my own little towns town I protested Even If It you OU did make tho the English language you u didn't make New York I challenged Ah but It its it's an nn English word Isn't It H. H he ho answered triumphantly Sound Like LUc n a Catch flo So I shortened the o 0 and dropped tho the r and loft left the song out and got It out of or my nose Tho The word vord passed was another Mumbling stumbling Mum bling bUng block for tOl In tho the same sami sentence watho was wara tho word passenger ns r. r The They looked so sc much alike No 10 matter Passed Is pronounced pro and passenger i Is b How do you oU explain that 7 I asked Oh Oh dont don't ask me to explain said the th professor protessor Its Ilg English quite quito Eng lish you know Whets When Vh 11 3 n O can t tell ll m me why you ou pronounce though nn and enough so NO differently then I shall shrill tell you ou wh why anything Is 18 S So I had to pass p It up The greatest ren te trouble I ha have havo 0 with Americans Americana however explained Mr Wilson Wil U son Is that the they insist on using rs r's s and some of ot th them m roll their ra rs quite shockingly shock InS you know Now the tho r's rs In good English are silent ho went on except on rare occasions But dont don't ask mo me to explain ho he added Its Ifa Just English that's all alit So It went on until I r realized I was long lone on short ao as s 's and short on long IonS as a's and anti concluded that thal the professor protessor W wa was ij Q hi jul JUJa th that t thee the t Jon languages cs I a J l' l J were but tort forty American n and English forg second cousins after nIl all but still have ha haea havea f acquaintance and that the they a speaking understand each other some da daI day might this I also learned other things In school from which vo wo will wUl Import rt accent accent ac nc- ac- ac cent guaranteed to keep Its polish even evenIn evenIn evenin In climates where hero there there- are aro no Jogs fogs or perpetual rains and nd where the they don dont don't t wear furs In August T TI lift when I I 1 was told I must say want Rant to say y elevator and ad caretaker caretaker also bloom when I want ant to say Janitor s when I 1 want to 1511 say shirtwaist alst that la is a 1 horrid word to lo u use UM p. p and that It If I want to be real swank when I go o homo home I must tag on OD or ta tag myself to certain expressions tons fons It If you OU are aro on tho telephone and keep p saying Are you OU there thero theror for about a half hour you ou stand st. a a. pretty good chanco of ot hearing a a. voice at nt tho the other end and nd you OU may or may not get set your jour our number that day My u hat hatI Oh Oh I say say 3 Just fancy Cancy Do you u mind mind Extraordinary 1 I 1 am broke I stuffed stumped d' d I i 1 am un J stony such a L turn him up You gave Ye mo me So ended b by lesson lasson and verily the proC's professor r might have e have said with the tho conQuering conquering conquering con con- Censor Ceasar She Sh came she sho sa say but 1 conquered |