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Show .Near York Clly llngllsli. IViyouVnowlnw itcityof thoAmer-lean thoAmer-lean union tho pc p speak the worst English nn 1 wear lb best clothes! ft Is Nov York, tliat wants lo lay down tho law to all the rest ' tho land Moreover, More-over, tho English pa Inn gota vrorso an 1 worao every jcar b..me tlmo njo the Inability to prononme Iba soun 1 "lh" ns In the wonls "tldn" and "thla," rn t con-Cneil con-Cneil apiiarently to n compirattiely small proportion of the lowest class of foreign immigrants and their deseen 1-ants. 1-ants. "Thin" they cilled "tin," while "tliat" vroull bo "1st" Now, lieiien forglvo them, the swollest )ul)emen, the car conductors and the elegant ticket men ou the derail! roads will ssyi "Will yriuenno uway from deref Tale de udder side." "He's mo braider, nnl me tnnddrr wants him, and lie won't come wld me," explains the street gunln whenreinon. strnttal wllh fur pounding a buy smaller than himself. If thU heathen English continues lo spread ns It has done wo may expect the Tnluiogee nnd the Ch-iuncey M. Drpews of the future to speak InthiKimeway In n generation or two more. DIattn Ciilahe.1 lsTfrra will lose the ability to sound "in," mil New Yorlc tenement houses will make tho fishlonahle pronunciation pro-nunciation for this great republic It will require all the publla schooling, all tho united Tort of the cultivators of pure English, to prevent No York city from demoralizing the lingnago. |