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Show Australian English. The first thin- hi a Canndlan vis ltnr to Austrah do Is In leirn Ihe Lngllsh language He niimt learn lo calculate his wealth In pounds anl his weight In slimes He must leurn tn say Irani Instead of street rat nnd lirt Instead nf elevator He mupl Imi-h tn say luggage for haggaLc gtiur.1 fo conductor eiirrlage for ear und pnols train for freight train If he Is a mar rlrd man dlspatihed to town each morning with a little list ot househol 1 needs for purdinse he must leuin to ask not for molasses but for treat l not for coal oil but for kerosene not for I eets but for beet root, not for corn staioh but for corn flour not for corn meal but fir maize menl, says u correspondent ot the Toronto Olobi He must not nsk nn Australian filend to recommend him tn a tellable haul warn dealer or men s furnltlu r Insti n 1 he must uk for an Iron-monger or n merer lly persevirance howevei he will soon mister nil these dlrflcul ties uf standard notation and nam. n nature He will then proceed tn st. p further In his llnculstlr studies and learn In speak fluently of n pennj as a brown of a sixpenny piece us a sprat of a shilling n a bob ' nnd of a sovereign us n quid ' 'When once he has made this English vncuhu lary his own, he may then put the Iln IshlliB tout hen to his llteiary e lunation luna-tion by acquiring the Australian a cent which, to dull Canadian eirs, is Indlstinculshsbla from tho Cockney. However It III behooves a man with a Yankee twang to throw stones ut the Cockney. |