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Show AitE your readers so far advanced in fashionable slang as to understand tho recent sketch in Punch called "Ta, Awfully Ta?" I confesi that to mo it had to bo translated and possibly possi-bly some others may bo as backward as I. Ta, or ta-ta is baby talk, and means "thanks" or "thank you;" grown up babies havo adopted it, anil it now brightens the life of many an ardent ndorer, when in return for soiiio trifling attention tho dear, cherry lips part, and thero drop out those brilliant flowers of speech, "Ta, awfully ta." One of tho objects of these forms of speech seems to be con- ( densation. Thero are so many thing ono would be glad to know about one's neighbor is lie or she handsome, or agreeable, or clever, or nice, or pleasant, pleas-ant, and so on; all this is now provided pro-vided for and packed away in the simple monosyllable 'n. You have i no need to ask your friend a torrent of questions about the lady of his choice; if ho says alio is fuifc, that in- chides everything desirable, and if he addH that ho thinks her (jut'le quite, t you know at once that she is the nc jil'is ultra of perfection. Letter from 1 Edinburgh. |