| Show i I i i I Modern Speech Records to Defy Times Time's Passing Ve We V have u scarcely any Idea how howEn En Englishmen en spoke even In Shakespeare's Shakespeare's Shake Shake- speare's day ural practically none at nt all of oC what our language sounded sound sound- ed like In the lays of The rh rhymes mes of poetry tell us that Doctor Johnson pronounced tea ten tenas as tay and probably perfect perfectas as But Hut beyond o odd od d scraps such as these we we know littie little little lit lit- tle tie about the pronunciation of ot En English Eng Eng- lish even en two two hundred years n ago o. o Matters will wll b be different for our oar descendants for they will be able to refer to several wonderful collections col col- col- col of gramophone records that exist In tIme the world today and to which additions are constantly being made One Otie collection of speeches songs and recitations b by famous people Is housed In Germany Germany Ger Ocr many but from our our point of view V the most roost Important Is that of the time British museum The British museum has hns not collected col merely wax records which might he be brol broken en It has imas the actual metal molds mold from which records can cnn be made nt at nn any time These matrices ns as they tiLey are called contain con con- tam tain records by man runny many enmin eminent nt po politicians poli l actors literary men and I women explorers and so on Thousands of years ears from now investigators In in- will be bc able to discover exactly what English sounded lII like c cIn I In a tim these ese do days Mo Montreal mm t real Family Herald |
