Show HEARD ONLY IN AMERICA english newspaper criticises criticizes our use of the phrase say ite its real meaning an american story in office win dow began as many american stories begin with say now how many english readers know the person and the tense of the american say does it stand tor for tell me or lor for I 1 say I 1 for the first there ie Is the familiar french anal analogy agy ogy the dis of the perpetual question of the french child and the aites of bommon talk in later life but a correspondent who had for halt half a lifetime read the american story in this sense waa was obliged to change it for the vulgar and exceedingly silly and quite eu Aus phrase of our own streets for be he put the matter to americana americans in america and they all assured him that say was nothing but I 1 eay say further vulgarized and yet tell me Is a beginning that has won a man more friends than any other opening in the customs of conversa tion nothing in the world makes a new acquaintance go more favorably london chronicle |