Show A Bit of Boston Politeness The habit of doing dictionary duty for any qne you may converse with says the Nev York Mail and Express must bo an unpleasant one only assumed from a highs high-s n e of duty which only generations of practice could make so congenial to the Boston mind Neither age sex nor limited acquaintance will prevent the Bostonian from correcting to your face any error or what he considers con-siders such in your prormnckitipn I is the height of antique good breed ing qutside Boston to pass over any inaccuracies inac-curacies Q speech in your neighbor and stories are told of the first gentlemen of their times who wont so far as to pronounce pro-nounce words after the fashion just uttered ut-tered rather than embarrass a companion with an error But the conscientious and critical Bostonian makes no bones of re pronouncing the word for your benefit after his idea Should you say aroma instead of ahronqa or either instead of eyther pr Meeanaon instead o Myanan yqq are sure to hear of it with no more scruple than i you were a firstform boyto use the English terminology of uppish schools A rather naturally polite authoress ducatel West by one of the correctest of mothers taken up short on a certain word by n critical editor mentioned her experience to a friend soon after n < looked the word up n ill i the t Oxford dictionary which is presumably pre-sumably authority even in Boston Well was he wrong asked the akee friendNq Nq was the answer with the most delicate i air of politeness the dictionary was1 vasNew York manner were a match for Joston then |