Show I I JUST TAKE MY WORD By Frank Colby Silver City Why Is it that American Indians are frequently given the name W LoV Lo V B. B M. M Answer It is a humorous usage suggested suggest d by a passage in Alexander Alex ander Popes Pope's Essay on Man an Lo the poor Indian whose untutored un un- untutored tutored mind Sees God in clouds or hears Him in the wind Altoona My dictionary pronounces pronounces pronounces pro pro- the word licorice as oh LICK I think Ill I'll go on saying LICK Vill LICK Will you cut me meon meon meon on the street Mr C. C C. Mrs H. H A. A Certainly not In my forthcoming forthcoming forth forth- coming dictionary rish LICK will willbe willbe be bc listed as the standard American pronunciation Lets Let's leave LICK riss oh in the elderly dictionaries with all the other outmoded nonesuch nonesuch nonesuch none none- such pronunciations Pittsburgh In grade school I learned to pronounce protein as PROE But now in high school school I am told to say tee Proe Any comment comment R. R. R. R R R. A. A either is correct teen PROE appears to prevail nowadays Peoria When Vh n m my small daughter daugh daugh- ter threatens to tell on her brother is she using slang slang slang- Mrs F F. P. P A. A Either is correct teen PROE-teen tunics old 1 Sam 27 11 And David saved saed neither man nor woman alive to bring tiding to toGa Ga Galls Gath th saying Lest they should tell on onus onus' us c Waterford Doesn't the expression expression expression sion back and forth place the cart before the horse horse P. P. P. P A. A A. A Yes for one cannot come corne comeback comeback back without first going forth But the expression is a well established idiom In to and fro the right order order order or or- der occurs One goes to a place before coming fro from a place Newark All the dictionaries Ive I've ever seen pronounce bona fide fido as nuh BOE-nuh FY But I hear it as uh BON-uh to rhyme with Hyde And Ive I've always said BON uh Am I wicked wicked wicked- Mr Mrs D D. W. W A. A Despite the dictionaries the customary American pronunciation tion in BON uh There is no sensible reason why it should not be recognized as a proper alternative alter alter- native c. t |