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Show Dialect of New York Newsboys. Although Irish and German boys have largely disappeared from the ranks of the nowsboys of the city hall district, their successors, Italian, Jewish Jew-ish and Oreek, speak the dialect of their predecessors, says the New York Sun. That dialect was the result of the glvo and take mingling of the Irish-American and German-American accents, resembling neither. It established estab-lished a dialect which has Imposed Itself It-self upon a class, a language by itsolt which the late recruits Into the army ot newsboys acquire sometimes by painful conscious effort, sometimes, In the case of tho very young, unconsciously. uncon-sciously. The result Is remarkable In that the trained ear can detect among those who speak that language no trace of tho Italian or Jowlsh accont, so plainly observed In the speech ot their elders. It 1b a fixed language, expressive, clear and musical, consisting consist-ing ot about 1G0 words. |