Show LAZY IN SPEECH even cultured persons say aab and yep instead of yes the simple english affirmative Is becoming somewhat battered in corn mon speech yes has long sounded as from the lips of the uneda bated but there Is a present ten dency among the educated to adopt the american variants upon the word america has found that an open vowel or a labial Is easier to pronounce than a sibilant and it has two substitutes for yes one of them Is yep and the other Is yah obviously the yah cornea through the influence of the simple german ja which la quite an elemental sound yep on the other hand Is clearly a protest against the waste of time in getting tongue palate and teeth in a position to hiss phonetic laziness Is what the late prof max muller would call it and within the last week the pres ent writer has conversed with halt a dozen men of culture and position three of whom yah d while the other three we have all heard sermons to the young on the am of learning to say no which Is easy but will the pulpit thunder warnings to those who will not say yes london chronicle |