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Show Mispronounced for Year. "The English language Is ono that few of Its users 'canjuwe any luck,' as the slang phrase'Ts," remarked a man the other day. "A young friend of mine, discussing politics, declared that one 'rlgamee' went out and another an-other 'rlgamee' come In. Not until I bought of tho word 'regime' could I nnglno what he meant, Another mentioned some circumstance which he declared had filled him with 'cbargln.' He mean 'chag'.ii.' I have a friend who suffered for yep-s with 'Iniommotiln,' not kno'"!pg that It was 'insomnia' all tho while. "I suspect that our mother tongue Is the only one In the world which cannot be spoken by Its own chlldion. And It we, two aro brought up on tho language, cannot speak It, what can wo expect from the foreigner?" Kansas Kan-sas City Journal. |