Show TEN IN PRONOUNCING MATCH Professional Men Including Doctors Lawyers Teacher and Preacher In Novel Test Ten fen professional men including doctors doctors doctors doc doc- tors lawyers a teacher and a preacher preach preach- er took part in a pronouncing match matchin in a New York hall of the Young Mens Men's Christian association recently Twenty one words were written on the blackboard The best man in the theten theten theten ten pronounced 12 words right according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to accepted authority The average number of errors was 11 Such are the perils and uncertainties of that which he are pleased to call our mother tongue William Henry P. P having compiled compiled com corn piled a book of Words Often Mispronounced 1 found it easy in a later edition to Increase the list to It Is not likely that even in inthe inthe inthe the second effort he reached the final word for decisions on disputed pronunciations pronunciations pro pro- are chiefly arbitrary and even presumptive take little little lit lit- tle the trouble to agree among them selves Only one man In the Young Mens Men's Christian association ten pronounced harass with the accent on the first syllable He admitted that he was was- perhaps right by accident The nine- nine to-one to argument of ot educated usage Indicated here has not prevailed with the dictionary makers It may catch catchup up yet There Is the hopeful instance these of squalor and squalid Of Ot two words the latter Is arbitrarily while Inthe in inthe inthe squaw lid as pronounced the former the logical squaw lor has been recognized only In modern times against the fixed lor squa of earlier years After all all the harmonizing of English English English Eng Eng- lish pronunciations is S a matter of some Importance with the simplifying of spelling I |