Show SEVERAL KINDS OF ACCENTS observant now new yorker noted the dif DI berant pronunciations of singers singer iri in the choir in so cosmopolitan a city as this began a man who was on hla his way from a choral service at one of the new york churches 1 I fancy a choir masters duties are doubly hard how so asked his companion who though less leas observing had sat through the same service because of the various t tons of the members of abo choir today aheard I 1 heard distinctly tour four different methods of pronouncing the word mercy it took me some time to figure them the M T all out but I 1 happened to to know th theline elline lord have mercy upon us etc thero there were some who said woolcy and they seemed to be in the M majority others sang murcy with all the b rr to the r that they could get in still there was some one a soprano who pronounced it as it if it wore more spelled with a double 0 Irne meeray me ercy and aoma one aavo avo it a rench french r finish and said mercay now I 1 dont doubt that choir waster master has worked over those thosa people in his effort to got a uni uniform forn pronunciation but so far at least to my perhaps too critical ear car lie he has baa failed ailed to do so |