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Show Officials: Orem man competent for trial Janice Peterson liA', t HfPAl i An Orem man accused of stabbing his father to death on Father's Day last year has been restored to competency by medical officials. Michael Kit sch, 32, is charged with aggravated homicide and aggravated assault. !'r was arrested in June after his father, 62-year-old Christopher Kirsch, was stabbed to death in their home near 8(10 North and Main Street in Orem. Kirsch was found incompetent incom-petent in October and was ordered into the custody of the Department of Fluman Services. He was treated for 90 days, after which doctors re-evaluated his ability to understand and participate in his defense, said prosecutor Tim Taylor on Feb. 12. "The conclusion of Dr. Berge is that he has been restored," re-stored," said public defender Tom Means. A review hearing has been The shibboleths that Don Norton The subject of today's column col-umn is the shibboleth. As one of very few words lxirrowed from Hebrew, it means simply "stream" in that language. But there's a tale behind that piece of water. We read GRAMMAR in chapter NOTES 12 of the Bixjk of Judges that the Gileadites had routed the F.phraimites in battle, bat-tle, and the losers had dressed themselves in civilian clothes and were trying to escape back home by crossing the Jordan River (hence the "stream"). How would the Gileadiles know which man was an Eplu aimite and which wasn't ' Very simple: "Then said they unto him. Say now Shibboleth: and he said Siblmleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right." In other words, the Ephraimites couldn't pronounce pro-nounce the "sli" sound. The Bible says that some 42.000 of them lost their lives that day. Thus the word shibboleth as QQ30! 1 C J. ( Let Us Insure rfct hy Your Health i Vt : . " and Life ' "r i f 'fV Insurance 1 'f L flrirmmffifli It's Not About the Car ... It's about the precious cargo it carries. 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The defense attorneys at-torneys will want to review all of the medical information with Kit sch before proceeding. proceed-ing. "There's a lot of information informa-tion in that report," he said. applied to language has come mean a use of the language that distinguishes one group of people from another. For example. Utahns and southeast Idahoans who say harse, fark. St. Gorge, Daru'thy for torse, fork, St. George. Dorothy were clearly raised in a rural or small-town part of Utah and Southeast Idaho. (Incidentally, many who try to get rid of that "shibboleth" pronunciation still pronounce the words war. wurd, and warm to rhyme with the "a" sound in card. because of the spellings. More about that shiblxleth in a future fu-ture column.) The word shibboleth doesn't have to carry a negative connotation, though it's usually usu-ally used that way to mark someone who is uneducated or otherwise unaware of standard stan-dard uses of the language. The ability to pronounce foreign words correctly, for example the unpredictable (to English speakers) French, may be said to be a shibboleth of being well educated: and failure to pronounce foreign words in an (2nd door) Urem X If Basic training pairs veterans On arriving at BYU and learning of the ROTC program, I went over to the Wells Building and tried to enroll in the AFROTC, thinking that even if I couldn't become a pilot pi-lot (I could sense that my eyes were not going to stay 2020), I could work on the ground. But the ROTC recruiter said, "The Air Force needs pilots." I walked down the hall the other way and signed up with the Army. I was now a junior at the university. There was an ROTC program that would let you make up your first two years of ROrC by going to basic ba-sic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky Ken-tucky during the summer. Then you finished your ROTC your last two years at the university. Basic training agreed with me very well. I liked the exercise, ex-ercise, I liked the outdoors, I liked being active. I had distinguish people acceptable way may also mark you as uninformed. So most people who claim to use the language "properly" will want to avoid common shibboleths which may include mispronunciations, words that don't mean what the speakerwriter thinks they do. grammatical taboos, or ultra-popular words what we call vogue words. Common mispronunciations include mis-CHEE-vee-us for MISS-chuh-vus (mischievous), GREE-vee-us for GREEV-us (grievous), and HEE-nee-us for HAV'-nus (heinous). The big shibboleth is the word irregardless, probably a blend of the words irrespective irrespec-tive and regardless. It started showing up in American English in the early 1900s, and despite its widespread use (among those "not in the know"), it is, as one usage dictionary notes, "still a long way from winning general acceptance ac-ceptance as a standard English word. Use regardless instead." A BYU administrator, addressing ad-dressing a regional conference "WHf RF KlP UM5N to griuvr in THrtwivrV Childcare for infants up to 12 years Open 6:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Monday-Friday 380 W. 920 N. Orem, Utah 801.221.2900 13279 S. 2700 W.Riverton, Utah 801.446.8869 Over 20 years experience Show this ad and recieve free registration! I. . 'Kn'Aftordable I UAVA1U Ol IUUIUI II?! i Look Like 377-7828 1774 N. bmTOtyr PrCMO (Briyharm Lan$ The ROTC program is a godsend to many university students. It certainly worked well for Theodore Okawa. wrestled in high school and during my years in college, and on my mission, 1 did 50 pushups and sit-ups every day, though 1 hadn't spent time running. The food was good at the mess hall. I learned first aid, use of the radio, drill and ceremony (the marching stuff), marksmanship, and care and maintenance of the M 16 rifle. We also fired other things than theM16. For just being in ROTC for the next two years, I received a living stipend of $100 a month, and this was when $ 100 was a lot of money. 1 could live on that, and with what I earned in my custodial job. I could even pay my tuition. I could even afford af-ford to date quite actively. I soon met a Japanese woman whom I'd met on my mission, and we became good friends. She was dating other men, but finally, with some advice ad-vice from my former mission of high school English and science sci-ence teachers, once used this sliibboleth. It drew an audible gasp from the audience! He and I had a little talk about the word on the drive home. A common grammatical shibboleth is "Between you and I ... It was up to he and I . . . they gave she and I . . . " The I, he, she in all three of these sentences should, by traditional rule, be me, hint and me, her and me, as the object of a preposition or the direct objects of verbs. A grocery executive in an adult class I was teaching teach-ing seriously questioned my competence when he heard me say "between you and me." On learning later that my usage was correct, he apologized profusely. Maybe the usage is now so common among the educated that it should be considered con-sidered correct? Some authorities authori-ties think so. I Don Norton is a recently retired English professor from BYU. For questions about usage, e-mail don nortonbyu.edu. State licensed and insured State assistance accepted School transportation Before and after school care Educational programs Summer camp programs Field trips " CPRFirst aid certified Trained staff and teachers Background check on all staff and teachers Nutritious snacks and meals served Low staff to child ratio Security cameras in every room Mi lb ! i ii i 1 1 mmw t f II, well with college president, an American Japanese, Japa-nese, I learned how to compete. com-pete. "Get in there and compete," com-pete," he counseled me. "That's what makes Americans great they compete!" 'started dating this woman seriously, and we decided to get married. I then had three semesters of school left. That summer, I went to advanced ad-vanced training at Fort Lewis, Washington. Next I finished my senior year and went into the army. My wife and I both graduated together, she with an English major, and me with a degree in economics. I remember that at commissioning, commission-ing, I walked the wrong way. Also at commissioning, you're supposed to give a dollar coin to the first person you salute, but I didn't have a dollar, so I ducked out the back door. I graduated in April but didn't report to infantry officers of-ficers basic at Fort Benning, Georgia, until July. I was allowed al-lowed to take my family with me, but because my wife was expecting our first son, I sent her to her home in Japan to live with her parents. Officers training involved a Celebrations I Yj j Anthony Hayes Elder Anthony Hayes, son of Jeff and Janice Hayes of Highland, High-land, has received his mission call to serve in the Manchester. New Hampshire LDS mission. Tony will speak February 22nd in a sacrament sac-rament meeting at the Highland 16th ward at 1:00 p.m. The church building is located at 10962 North 6400 West. Tony enters the MTC on March 4th. ARE YOU A CANDIDATE FOR HIP OR KNEE REPLACEMENT? If you are 18-80 years old, considering joint replacement, and taking daily medication for pain from osteoarthritis of the hip or knee, you may be eligible to participate in a research study involving an investigational medication. Participants receive study medication, study-related physician exams, lab work, and financial compensation for time and travel. for additional information and participation requirements, call 322-INFO (4636) ri American Fork Ortho dotitics PC: Alan C Carter bos, MS r" ': Rodney G. 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