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Show A Queer Thing About July. I How we came to piuiiouuio Jul ns we do now with tho accent on the see-Otvl see-Otvl syllable Is oue of the uusolied mysteries of speech. Nnnied, of ciiiiim. after Julius Cnesnr, It should renlly be ' pronounced to thyme with "dttlj." mid 1 so our forefntlieis aitually did pio-uouiicu pio-uouiicu It. Spenser, for Instance, has the line, "Then came hut July boyling Uko to Are," and ecn so late ns John-sou's John-sou's tlmo tho accent wns still on the "Ju." It Is ono of many words which would startle those ancestors of ours, spoken ns wo speak them now. I-on-don Chronicle. |