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Show Future English Speech ! Matter of Speculation In two centuries the English-speaking world will not be speaking English, Eng-lish, according to II. C. Bailey, British Brit-ish writer, what it will speak Is to be "a strange compromise between future British English and future American English," a lingo, perhaps mercifully, hidden by Trovidence . from our Imagination. He adds: "This prophecy is not mine. It was made by a lecturer in phonetics, A. Lloyd James. His reason for the hybridization hy-bridization of our language is that there are many more people In the world today who speak American English than there are speaking British Brit-ish English. "Here we have one of those undeniable unde-niable statements which in fact Is fallacious. America has many more citizens than this country, but they do not all speak the same tongue. "The inexperienced English ear could detect, even If their own novelists novel-ists did not Insist upon it, differences in the speech of the American from the eastern states, from the South and from the Middle West. Which la the true American English?" |