Show the tha pronunciation of U 18 s the schools have just opened and as everybody reads your paper if it you will allow me the space ei I 1 wish to call the attention n of t the L i teachers and pupils to a fault in english pronunciation exceedingly common in the north rarely heard in the south or irr in but which seems to be spreading gere here here we have faults enough in the south douth without grafting some northern ones upon them I 1 refer to top the vulgarism if I 1 may BO so term it of giving the long u 21 which Is in so many ol 01 our common words the sound of 00 oo 11 fo for i r dinst ince ninety give five out of very overy northerners will say eay in nati ati toot instead of institute dooty instead of duty a perfect rhyme to cho iha word beauty they will call new now and news noo and a perfect rhyme to pow and pews aud dud so oa on through the dozens and hd hundreds of similar words ot a dictionary in the english language au authorizes thories this in student and the U has the same bame aa as in and they should not ba be pronounced stood atoo ent dent and sto aa as go so many teachers are in the habit of sounding them if it is a vui vulgarism garlem to call a door a doah as we all admit it as much of a vulgarism a newspaper a one is northern and und the tire uther other thias the tha only difference when the london punch wishes a to burlesque the tho of servants it makes thum them call lilt the duk duke he daok the tut tutor 0 r the tooter and A tube a boob you never find the best beat northern sp speakers eakers dakers buchas as wendell phillipa charles samue r george william Wil wll llara Cart curtis Zm emerson erson and that class cluss haying noo for new now or for or Tue Aday avenon for avenue or calling a dupe a doop itis it la a tault fault that a southerner also aleo nevor never falls into he has slips enough of another kind but he slip on the longn aa an many olour of our teachers ten tea chers chera have never had bad their attention called to tb this I 1 hope they will this notice washington star |