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DIVISION L
BROKEN ENGLISH.
Its Occasional Charm.
FEBRUARY
IRELAND TO LURE TOURISTS.
Means of Balancing Ledger. Dublin. ~~Iroland's
Janic
#chomo
I often wonder why we have wealth no longer will be depend- ant on music-hall ditties to spread romained as insular as WO sto when our languago in so attracte famo, if the plaus of Tourist, tivo on the lips of any foreigner. Development Association for an
Intensive advertising There is a charm about English when incorrectly spoken and abroad are carried out.
Perhaps the visit of the Amori- pronounced which holds true of no other language. Surely those can advertising mon last summor people who charm us are endear- accountable, or maybe the Goalsed to us? asked Doris Arthur methods adopted by Continental countries who And in the tourist P. W. D. La F. A. Jones (in a Home fournal, Huddersfield .30 15 10. 5 53 22 40 Tho English language is hard. traffio a great source of revenue West Brom...29 18 47 44 25 40 Most foreigners who speak it add prompted this really radical do- Nowcastlo 32 13 15 5 48 27 30 the softness of their native tongue parluro. Bolton.......30 15 8 7 53 27 38 whon-doing so.
Tho country is now quite ready Broken English Liverpool.29 15 7 7 51 37 37 on the lips of a lovely woman to believe T. M. Healy, the Gov- Bury ...29 12 11 6 40 38 35 makes her irresistible, and gives ernor General, in his insistonco Bunderland...31 15 412 46 41 34 charm to those who are other that as a poople we are too Birmingham..30 13 7 10 33 35 33 wise unattractivo. Perhaps the modest." So the sloganera will Manch. O. ...31 11 911 59 52 31 prettiest English is spoken by be called upon to "well" Iroland. Notts C. ...29 10 9 10 25 21 29 Fronch people. I remember how Tottonham... 29 9 10 10 38 33 28 comical and expressivo it sound- West Ham...28 11 6 11 39 39 28od whon a Franch friend hold up Cardiff...
...30 10 8 12 40 40 28 her hands exclaiming "Twice as Aston Villa...28 8 11 9 40 48 27 dirrty could not be." Sheffield U....30 8 11 11 35 44 27 Blackburn ...29 9 8 12 37 44 26 Burnley ...30 9 8 13 36 50 26 Arsonal......28 10 4 14 32 37 24
...29
7 9 13 32 30.23 ...30 7 8 15 28 47 22 ...28 5 7 16 22 50 17 ...29 7 2 20 25 60 16
DIVISION II.
Leads Evorton Notts F. Proston
MENTAL DISARMAMENT." The organisation that alms to make Ireland a tourist contra is composed of railway, hotel and steamship intorosts. It aims to Any European speaking broken) work in close co-operation with English is delightful to liston to. the Government, which rogard Tho mispronounced words and the enterprise with favour. quaint turn of a phrase Similar projects here camo to charm us in the same way naught on account of the politica!! as childish mispronunciations turbulenco of lato years, but the and talk do. I think, however, hope is hold that in the future nothing equals the soft delight of less force will enter tho sottle- our language spoken by negroos ment of those differencon now that "mental disarmament" has in America.
English badly pronounced is bocomo reality. Dorby ...29 18 6 5 62 26 42 the only fault which, constantly Much was learned through the Manch. U...29 16 7 6 42 20 39 Leicester ...28 16 6 6 66 27 38 repented, never palls or irritatos influx of visitors to the Tailteaun Complaint or games last summor. us. Porhaps thoro are eno Cholson
...30 13 12 5 11 25 38 two exceptions, an to chi-chi was made that rail fares were Clapton O....30 12 8 10 33 28 32 English, when the words are entirely too high as compared with Wolves ...29 13 5 11 37 39 31 clipped all the time:
the lovels oxisting on the Contin- Porteniouth...29 9 13 7 36 38 31
ent. The tourist with a limited Port Vale ...28 13 4 11.34 37 30
IRIBH DROGUE, Everyone knows the charm of budget rather objected to seeing Wednesday...31 12 5 14 39 46 29 Hull
...28 11 6 11 41 35 28 an Irish brogue, and the added eights when transportation cost! Southampton 28 9 10 9 25 27 28 eincerity given to words when came too high.
HOTEL TARIFF REFORM. Oldham... ...30 10 8 12 26 40 28 spoken with a Scottish accent.
Then there were the hotel tariffs, Crystal P. 28 11 5 12 32 37 27 The Cockney dialect is a corrup Fulham.....29 9 9 11 30 38 27 tion of the patols in parts of Kont which American visitors suspect- Bradford C....30 8 10 12 27 36 26 and Easox. In its original home ed were often elevated for their Stockport ...30 9 8 13 25 39 26 it is very agreeable to bear, but particular bonefit. Little (affort! Blackpool 27 9 7 11 47 37 25 language, like mon, gota discased was made to standardize prices, hotel guests were expected to pay South Shields.29 7 11 11 32 33 25 In cities.
Babu English is much funnier and the result was far from Middlesbr'gh 29 7 11 11 26 35 25 Stoko ...30 8 7 15 23 34 23 to read than to listen to. It is satisfactory.
Much of the Barnsley ...28 7 7 14 32 45 21 tho most blghfalutin language
7 5 17 34 68 19 (or, should I say lingo ?) in the which visitors wore subjected last ...29
world. Chinese at once loaps to year is to be eliminated this sum- the mind, but that is a flowery mor. The Government is being DIVISION III. (SOUTH.)
languago,
urged to see that the important ...28 16 7 5 52 22 39 Bocho-da-mer English and roads are made more attractivo 29 15 7 7 47 25 37 pidgin English can hardly be to murorista. Railway fares will ...29 15 6 8 47 27 36 called broken English; the juxta- be somewhat lower and it is hoped ...29 14 7 8 46 29 35 position of the words, apart from that most of the hotels will bo ...30 12 11 7 41 30 35 tho accent, is so ontirely differ-impressed with the importance of Southend ...29 16 3 10 42 32 35 ont from the correct construc-not seeking to make a fortune Bristol C. ...29 13 9 7 34 26 35 tion of a sentence, but it is vory out of the tourist traffic in one Exeter ...
...29.14 6 9 43 34 34 charming and quaint. I remem- socson. Northants ...30 14 3 13 35 32 31 Charlton Brighton
Coventry
Swansea Plymouth Bwindon Nowport Millwall
Watford
Norwich
annoyance
to
bor the account given by a native Argely due to the initiative of ...28 10 10 8 31 29 30 of Nigeria who bad attended a American shipping companion, ...28 10 9 9 37 33 29 missionary meeting and been Cork, or Queenstown, has been ...30 11 7 12 27 39 29 deeply impressed by a description restored as a port of call for Gillingham...29 10 8 11 29 35 28 of angola. He said: "He talk Transatlantic liners. It has gone 27 8 11 8 37 33 27 them small, small beof; they live back on the schedule of those ...27 9 7 11 24 22 25 for up, you look 'em, you look British operators who, before ...28 9 7 12 31 39 25 om, but you no fit for to catch the days of American con Bristal R....27 8 811 28 34 24] 'om, "
potition, conaldorod the waters of Cork harbour too shallow.
Roading
Q.P.R.
Aberdaro Luton
...28 9 5 14 33 44 23 ...30 4 14 12 30.47 22 Brentford ...31 7 5 19 23 67 19 Bournom'tb...27 5 7 15 21 39 17 Mortbyr 28 6 3 19 25 45 16
ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.
LEAGUE AGAINST MARRIAGE.
New Association in Italy. Romo: A bachelor association
con-
Generation of Discovery,
DIVISION III. (NORTH)
Thirty years ago (on January Darlington ...29 18 7 4 58 21 43 23, 1895) thoro was made on Capo has just boon started at Rutine, Salerno, which already Nolson ...
...26 16 1 6 45 28 36 Adare the first landing on the astr
and Southport 28 14 7 7 40 23 35 shores of the South Polar contin-numbere aoveral hundred young
provides The expedition was common, N. Brighton...28 15 5 855 32 35 ont.
by Captain Leonard siderable scopo for comment. Bradford
...29 12 10 7 57 31 34 manded Rochdale ...29 14 6 9 53 41 34 Kristensen, in an old whaler, the among Italians. "The Bachelors' is not dissimilar from Lincoln ...29 12 7 10 37 39 31 Antarctic the first vessel since the League
12 54 61 31 Erebus and Terror to ro-visit"The League of the Possonged " Ashington ...31 12
(La Lega dogli Spiritati), founded Doncaster
30 12 6 12 42 46 30 South Victoria Land.
Intbogeneration that has passed in Venice during the oightoon Halifax...
...27 10 8 9 33 31 28 Crowo
...28 9 10 9 35 46 28 since then, no fewer than nineteen century.
The now league was inaugurat- Chesterfield...27 10 6 11 34 29 26 expeditions, of which eight were
a banquet when the Wigan ...
...29 8 10 11 42 43 26 British havo sailed for the Fared with Walsall....30 9 8 13 32 38 26 South, Nine wintering partios statuto was read and an official,
guosts. Accrington ...29 10 6 13 45 53 26 have landed on the continental hymn sung. A priost was among Barrow.....27 10 6 11 37 44 26 shores and carried out rososroh, the
...28 8 10 10 33 47 26 exploration for a year or longer. neophytes were harangued from Ton men-Amundson and his a balcony by the prosidont, who ...29 9 7 13 33 41 25
and gave tho Hartlepoola...28 7 9 12 32 44 23 four companions, Scott, Wilson, laid great stress upon thoir vow Traumers
...26 9 4 13 38 39 22 Oates, Bowers, and Edgar Evans not to marry, Wroxham
..31 7 7 17 26 49 21-have reached the Polo, and welcome news that money had Rotherham...28 4 6 18 27 02 14 soven others--Shackleton, "Wild," been received enabling them to Marshall, Adams, Commander found a review called "The Evans, Croan and Lashly--bave Bachelor." The number of letters buon within 150 miles of it. David, received from aspirants to entor Mawson, and Mackay bave locat- the association from all over Italy has become such a tax that ed the South Magnetic Polo.
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od in an observatory somewhere. An enormous amount of work near London, and the University: romains for future generations, authorition liave agreed to accept Only a few hundreds of the 14,000 the instrumont-and provido. It milos of Antarotic coastline have with an up-to-date observatory. yet boon charted, and a more The place chosen for the building vestige of its five million equare in the public park at Hondon, miles of interior has been ex-and it is believed the loos! Coun- plored. The Pole itself is neither all are favourable to, the project, "Maybe, but he isn't remind the most inaccessible nor the and will provide the necessary ad of it so often!"'—
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