1961-09-16 — Page 7

Take advantage of this special free gift offar.

Every customer who buys a quart bottle of Hennessy Cognac Brandy between the 22nd August and 24th September 1961 Inclusive, will be given a Hennessy Cognac Brandy Tumbler Tree of charge. Please ask for it! AVAILABLE AT ALL LEADING STORES.

FILES

"Thanks to the Press front-paging stories about little girls borrowing bables to stowaway to America...'

HOW DO

YOU RATE YOUR ACCENT?

TRY THIS: I know Featherstonehaugh at Magdalen College, but when I met him at the Belvoir Hunt he entirely misled me with his pronunciation of Arkansas. JOHN SNAGGE, veteran BBC announcer, was claiming to me that he had lost his Oxford accent years ago.

Then he said: "Shall we go owf to the club?”

Well, we went "awf" to the club. And with some other BBC men we discussed good English. What is it? Who speaks it?

"It's changed a lot," wald Smagne, who began brúadeust-

praeffer Announcers su say

ing 34 years ago, try nut to Peunstable" for a policemans, Bul ayaw because that's gone "uvvej" for "novel" is now a out of fashies.

| Fashed upper-classism,

"t's the Oxford atera, いず "Mayfair et chney." I was brought

up to mek. You know. yell went to Seutland (for Scotland)

Changing

Fashion

by

PETER CHAMBERS

London Express Service.

do

HENNESSY:

COGNAC BRANDY

YOUR DREAM CAMERA

Your backache RICOH

could be

tonsil trouble

"L

By Cedric Carne

OOK at it," Ronald Ayres said, peering through the French, windows. "I've let the garden go wild because you told me not to do gardening with my weak back." Mra Ayres took up the story. "And he doesn't pick up any heavy things since you told him not to," she said. "On holidays had to struggle with the luggage."

"would yo14 One way and another it.

mind opening seemed I had caused a re- your mouth?" I asked him,

Yes, there were the two volution in the Ayres house gully tones. Qdolly Ronald hold when I saw Ronald Ayres agreed to have them Ayres last spring.

removed. He was prepared to with occsional sort Then he had complained of put up.

not with attacks lumbago, and after had throats but

It

**What

to call the me with his pronunciation of cleared I had warned him not of lumbago as well, Mrs Ayres to indulge exercises that urged him to have this minor

in Oxford accent no longer exists,"

might strain his back muscles, operation. he said. "Like it or not, the

we used

Arkansas,

HBC announcer's pronunciation Correctly, it is said: "I knew is what most people think to be Fanshaw al Mowdin College, 'right-though we have made but when I met him with the to shout. But for the South

speech change mistakes." In

Beaver Hunt he entirely misled you took a train from much faster than we believe, and Coast

me with his proNUNciation of Charing Crass."

Scagge has been astonished to these "aws" have hear how his voice sounded on become plain "" Jrt BBC 30-year-old recordings.

All

A British Crossword Puzzle

20

12 12

2

3

4

15 6

9

10

11

12

13

14 15

16

17

18 19

21

122

23 24

26 27

28

[30

31

32 33

34 135

136

37

38

39

40

ACROSS

DOWN

1 Tree off colour?

2 ini.

3 Apple.

4 Faid.

1 Dit to discard.

5 Kill*.

I often drunk.

10 egular.

11 Thrust

12 Potenlate.

13 Short chap.

14 F

if flot ingeiber.

IR tegard.

21 Accompanying.

23 Monkeyed about?

20 Lar

20 Lost

11 Betish town.

32 Darek?

34 Mother for the beaverst

30 Our mit.

37 father.

20 Foreign cola.

3 ligh or low fellowat

40 Vessels.

5 Fish on ice?

atly part,

7 Prehistoric man!

8 Attempt to get fred.

15 Trifling.

17 Quadruped.

1 Female.

20 Scottish coat?

8

22 It's hard to cool drinks!

24 Head.

25 Senior members.

27 Calls.

28 Miss Peace?

201 Angie.

30 More slowly.

33 liver.

23 Or nothing?

During the war the BBC Arkansaw. persisted in talking about ration "coupongs," French-style, when everybody else in Britain was queueing for their "koop'ns."

It took the BBC even longer to decide that nobody outside a broadcasting studio ever called a questionnaire a "kestionnaire."

The way people speak la so bound up with snobbery and class distinction that the BBC Koer very canny before it changes anything in the rule book. When In doubt if sides with upper-class speech. Jchn Snagge could think of only one exception to this rule. Years ago the BBC ran ahead of the democratiss- 1ion of the Queen's English and decided that "garridge" was what most people called a garage.

Traps

Names of people and places are the easiest things to mispro- nounce, so Snagge and I evolved a sentence with as many linguls- tic traps as we could think of

This is it. I knew Feather- stonehaugh at Magdalen College, but when i met him at the Helvair Hunt he entirely misled

CHESS

BY LEONARD BARDEN

I had to admit then that I I suppose she suddenly had a the real vision of her husband carrying had not discovered

of his lumbago,

Али па My the luggage la future, cause

of the frenet advice had been given in the sho gazed pu

windows I guesred that stre hope of preventing tocks.

could see the garden trim agalu.

-(London Exprres Service).

mero

at

Mr Ayres certainly looked a sorry sight. Despite his recent Italian utan, his left hand was clapped to his back and the corners of his mouth turned down.

I thought } knew only one person who pronounced “misled" ka "mizzled." But apparently it is a common mistake, It's been heard over the air, und Elizabeth Miller, who runs the BBC's Pro- Sometimes backache is due to nunciation Department, bas disc conditions, sometimes to heard it twice from the pulpit. } arthritic changes in the spine,

"Not. I hasten to say, in Scot- land," said Mrs Miller, who comes from Pitlochry, Her en- re department consists of four women, two Scottish, two Irish.

Tricky

"Nevertheless, we supply what we hope is the standard Southern

of English pronunciation

Boy fricky words or names," sold Mr Miller.

"Theims" pronounced the French way like a nasal "Rinse sounds ridiculous on any Eng- lish tongue. "Reems,"

unwary

but more common to sprain of the back ligaments, or tearing of some small muscle abres.

Some people just seem have a weak back and they get pain there after a cold or even when they Are emotionally upset.

"Nonsense," said Ronald. +19 wan's emotionally upset until I got this blasted back."

THE CLUE

Whatever the cause of his Ayres backache, I knew Mc would feel better if he went to bed with aspiring, a hot water bottle, and perhaps liniments.

about to suggest this when Ronald Ayres growled: 13 becomes "And don't just tell me to go

I was

to bed with aspiring, please America is full of traps for the doctor. I'm an behing with my

Englishman, Tucson, work at the office." Arizona, is pronounced Tew- "You see," his wife explained, son you say Boise, Idaho, as "before his holiday he was Jald though it were the opposite of up with tonsillitis." "girlie;" the San Joaquin Valley in California is pronounced "San Wawkeen" and a Sioux Indian Ja simply a *Sco,"

Drawl

The BBC goen ** far in it can in saying American names the way Amerkane say them, but it draws the line at Ball- more, Maryland.

Inadvertently, she had given me a clue. Diagnoses for back- che have in the past tended to

Not become over-fashlanable. such a long time ago every cato, of lumbago was the result of a "slipped" disc.

Years before that, doctors used to say it was due to a focal infection. The fact t

the sometimes a lumbago T result of a "tipped" diac. And sometimes badáčke can remit froth a focal infection.

Toce} infection! What' this focal Infection?" Mr Arres

a low

| weed impatiently.

"Bome "people" have, grade infection somewhere in the body anel it in an if the one | taxine frùm ihla cestne trouble

elresohere," X explained.

In Haltimore Itself this is pro- nounced "Dailmore, Meriin." It's remarkable the way an Ameri- can drawt can reduce the word "Maryland" aloon to syllable.

Worst DÍACO-NAME ozlatako avay mada occurred during the independence celebrations of un African nation.

|

"Buch in infection way be di the tonelle. Again, it could be in the shures or la could furt result from bad teeth...***

"It may be strange to

ami, ehrošlo sinice injuction solch backacham. I mumblack, "but it |

"And now," aid the BDC When this poition was Bm) | announcse, "there is a brandons printed as No. 1904, thì sợine from the Land of tha tegar,” tion began by Rich Two

wha own and D. 1. amità, spalled | "Tiger" Birmingham Pendres, 15, 0, 1 If he hadn] pralourised fi | simde bu hoaring out that

International

"Badmiflwed, from his

TRSTKEDAY'S CROSSWORD, -- Altun's 3 Crowhen T Apache, & Earring, ↑ Hop, 11 Bent, 12 Feres, 15 Mert, 10 Wait 17. Resin, 14 Vath, 18 Bids, 21 Dancine, 23 Man, 29. Kapra quicker and pewter win for permissions would never have totale for swargitara_kirmi Down: Back, 3 Fathers 3 Chest 4 fleep, Borrowed, Black (to more). Hem J Signel, 10 Antidote, 11 Des, 13 faising, 14 Gin, 15 Bridge, 16 Viena, 19 Best, 20 Last,

London Ängryde derveen,

followed....

to tell the doctor, the hig

at

H.K.$ 209.00

List Price

Aman

RICOHMATIC 35

Fully automatic electric eye, leas aperture up

to 12-8, coupled rangefinder and selfumer

Available at all leading camera shopa.

SOLE AGENTS: EASTERN TRADERS

United Bldg., Hong Kong.

dancing

attendants.....

our cabin crew

Sa fleet of foot, so soft of hand, their hairta

descs with gladness as they dance attendance.

Se willingly and lovingly . . . on you.

Jat majestically with them, with us to the

great tries ad the world...

TOKYO-BANGKOK - SOMSAY-ROME

GENEVA --PARIS-LONDON-NEW YORK a few enchanted Boxing hours away!

AIR-INDIA