Show SEVERAL KINDS OF ACCENTS observant new yorker noted the off dlf ferent pronunciations of in the choir in so BO cosmopolitan a city aa this began a man who was on his way war from a choral service at one ot of the new lew york churches 1 I fancy a choir masters duties are doubly hard haw 80 BO asked his bla companion who though less leas observing had ha d sat through the same service because of the various pro nuncia eions of the members of the choir today I 1 heard beard distinctly four different methods of pronouncing the word mercy it took me some time to figure them all out but I 1 happened to know the line lord have mercy upon us etc there were some who said tu olcy and they hoy seemed to bo be in the majority majora ty others sang murcy with all the b rr to the r that they could get in still there was some one A ao who pronounced it as if it were spelled with a double e Ime roe ercy and some one davelt gave it a french finish and said mercay now I 1 dont doubt that choir master has worked over those people in his effort to got get a uniform pronunciation but so far at least to my perhaps too critical ear he has baa tailed failed to boso doso do so |