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Simplified Spelling Dead, Says Dean
New York, Apr. 25. Frank H. Vizetelly, dean of American word-twister, cole- -brated his 73rd birthday anni- versary to-night by deciding that "tabloids" and "brain trusters" are here to stay, whisky whether you like it or not is
NAZI RADIO JAMS MOSCOW "HATE" WIRELESS RELATIONS
STRAINED
Fears of a new European radio "War" have been aroused as the re- sult of the persistent jamming by a Nazi station of anti-German propa- gando programmes radiated by the 500-kilowatt Moscow transmitter, the world's most powerful broadcasting station.
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"whisky," and simplified spelling is as dead as pickled herring.
An the same goes for "Coppers" and "shoppies." They are gone and practically forgotten.
hatched head through a cloud of Vizetelly poked his gray, sparsely papers, manuscripts and bulky volumes, with which he is compiling four new dictionaries, and explained that "whisky is one of the few ad- mitted exceptions to the decline of implied spelling.
KING HAILED - Crowds in South London braved Intermil- tent showers and Indicated an affectionate regard for King George VI ns in Informal clothes, he visited the locality recently, Here he is grected by a woman from the Old Tenants' Hostel in Newburn Street. He smiled shy- ly as he acknowledged cheers of the crowd.
DIET FOR BLOOD PRESSURE
ADVICE TO PEOPLE
OVER 35
By A Medical Correspondent During a research into the pro- hundred years ago," he raid, biem of high blood pressure under "acre was 'aker,"
feather was Tether, his direction, Dr. 1. Harris, Honorary leather ether, turkey 'turity and whisky whisky. The last is the Physician, to the Liverpool Heart only one that survived."
Hospital, established that protein'
Is
huge
And that is the way it will go into food (the nitrogen-containing food) Vizetelly's diellonaries.
new
eaton in CXECAS raises the blood The elderly lexicographer, who now
revising his
"standard pressure. dictionary" to include such modern It was further discovered that by terms as he believes will endure, said a certain method of dieting the life "steater" and "vurmintry."
he would admit such words us of a person suffering from high blood
The latter is not, as might be sup- pressure can be prolonged.
After writing a scientifle book on posed, a synonym for "dirty" a word at "crossroads, but is a perfectly good the subject, Dr. Harris concluded word for a class of rats. And fection a hole in cloth made by stoater is a man who mends to per- that the results of the research awere important enough to warrant a lighted cigarette."
(1
However, such words no "sharple" i
C.E. WARREN & CO., LTD. possible to delect intelligible spoch. said he owned the word "lollipop."
wider audience, and hence the
the Russo-German relations ether have long been strained, and recent virulent attacks from Mos- cow on the litter regime have ag- gravated the dispute.
German radio engineers have now (a slick trick or a cute number) are publication of "Diet and High Blood in Pressure" Issued to-day (Hogarth deliberately jammed the Soviet passing idioms, and will not be
Vizetelly's new book.
Press. 10s. 6d.), The whole matter brondcasts. This is being done by
He also put his square-toed boot may be summed up in the following means of a "characteristic note sent
down
on trade-names which have quotation: out on the same wavelengths as become common by usage, and on those of Moscow,
Listeners in
the practice of identifying common "A man may be reclining in his Germany, tuning-in 011 Any of words as trade-names, for instance: favourite chair, with a large cigar Moscow's frequencles, hear only a
"Lollipop."
in his mouth, after sumptuously confused roar, out of which it is im- "A man came into my office and feasting on delectable viands and the choicest of wines. During this time he may wear smiled, and said to him: "My dear
out his Tuning-in to Moscow last night, fellow, you are requesting the ridicu-
heart and blood-vessels to a much writes Tel. 20269.
inio London Marning Post lous. That word came
than greater extent
the stone- representative, the effect of the longinge in 1730."
mason 'engaged on his laborious WORKS DEPT. 216 Wanchai Road.
jamming was unmistakable. The Spelling reforms, he explained, are
task." -noise--began-as-soun-as-to-an- the constant bane of word-wizards,
voice
could nouncer's
be heard For instances, how do
It is suggested that all persons of you speed saying, "Achtung! Achtung! Hier "chinquapin?"
35 years of age and over should re- scow. It persisted through- spricht Moscow.'
The answer is you can spell it duce the amount of protein in
ounces a day. out the 60-minute programme de- almost any way and be right. There diet, to about two voted to anti-Germun talks and are five accepted ways, according to Energy requirements can easily be propaganda, und ceased the moment Vizetelly. These
obtained from sugar, starches and bre: chinkopin. the hour was over, when the clock chibcapin, chinquepin and chinkopin, fat in the dietary. How this can be in the Red Square, Moscow, struck And if, by this time, you would like translated into terms of everyday and a record of the "Internationale' to know what a "chinquapin" is, it's food is illustrated in a series of diet
sheets printed in an appendix. was played.
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