Show New York Pronunciation A recent note In the New York Sun calls attention to a peculiarity of New York pronunciation in the omission oC the letter r It gives I an example overheard In the streets Where you woykln Im woykln down hi Poyl street < makln shoyts Anyone that knows New York known characteristic this la There Is a further characteristic and that Is In the omission of the use of r with the I broadening of thc vowel For Instance the guard on the Fifth avenue road will say Flftythoyd stect change cause I I for ITaulem when he means Fifty third street change caiS for Harlem J We sometimes think that as a whole we speak better English than the English En-glish do and our contention Is perhaps I I per-haps correct But our various deviations devia-tions from English pure and simple are great If one considers the New England I Eng-land dialect or Davlr Ilarums speech so characteristic of New York or Southern dialect or the dialect that lUley has immortalized and the url ur-l Western or frontier speech one will feel that we have many and varied 1 I ways of mauling the language Indianapolis In-dianapolis News I NewsWWW |