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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2518, 1926.

A STANDARDISED ⠀ SPEECH.

SLOVENLY HÀBITS OF TO-DAY,

JAPAN'S FOREIGN TRADE.

The following cable, giving an authe et "Japan's foreign trade in chugust, was received by the Japan Consulate- General, Hongkong on Thursday ----

The foreign trade of Japan during fast The Committee appointed by the B.B.Cmouth decreased to 34 million yen com had a limited reference; it was aaked to pared with that of the same month last advise a uniform pronunciation 'äl'ceryear and the excess of exports over im- taia disputable words (of which disput-ports also fall of to ball the amount of able" itselt, was one) for the use of the August last year.. announcers

Though the high exchange rate is the The B.B.C. modestly disclaimed all in main cause of the depression, the trade tention of setting itself up as an authe-with. India and Chins especially export rity on the subject, it merely desired that to Manchuria decreased owing to the Fs announcers should all use the same fall of the price of silver. Fronunciation for such a word' as

"pris vacy, or idyl," and it sought the advice of gentlemen who are expert in phonetics..

'

An improvement in trade is hardly expected at present because of the poh tical chaos in the Central China and the

dullness of silver.

Exchange remains firm. The money But the modesty of the BBC does market has tightened a little," the margin not alter the fact that the pronunciation to reserves increasing notably. The of privacy " or " idyll" used by their Stock Market is firm. The Index num announcers will probably be adopted by ber of wholesale price dropped 15 per the overwhelming majority of those who cent. from the level of the month before listen to them. In disputes ever words last. people will say, "Well, that is how the Silk shows a favourable tone of ex- B.B.C. pronounce it, and they have the pectation of improvement of the market authority of the Poet Laureate, Dria America but cotton yarn, effected by Bridges, and ather eminent phoneticians both the political disturbances in China behind them. And they ought to know?" and the weakness of the American cot-

I do not attach much importance to ten, shows uneasiness. this sort of standardisation. Whether the word "privacy" is pronounced so that its first syllable rhymes with "drive" ar with live is no great matter; it may be audibly and well, pronounced in either way. There is, of course, a ques- tion of euphony, but it is not a question ou which unanimous opinion is obtain- able. Mr. Bernard Shaw, who is a mem ber of the B.B.C. Committee, considers that the word "isolate has a pleasanter sound yhen it is pronounced issalate.' Few of us would agree with him.

People Who Mumble. There are fashions in pronunciation, and a very popular person could quickly change the sound of a word. The word category is generally pronounced [ cat-e-gory," but Lord Olivier, who was

Foreign trade of Japan during last month:

Yalue of Exports..... 158 million yen. Value. of Imports 140

Excess of Exports... 18 Trade with China during last month: Value of Exports..... 19 million yen Falue of Imports..... 18 Excess of Exports.... 98

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Rate of exchange quoted by the. Yoko- harra Specie Bank, Tokyo, on the 10th of this month: On New York, T.T. 849; on Loadoa. TT. 15. 11. (Quotation was raised by 2 points each on the 3th).

Amount of note in circulation on the 10th of this month 1,086 million yen

argin, to reserves... 93 million yea. Japan on the same date: 21 million yen Amount of advances by the Bank of

Interest rate of overnight call loan in

een 4 rin to 1 sen 5 rin.

tion and expansions during last month: Proposed capital of industrial promo-

99 million yen..

during last month: 139 millon yen.

Amount of bonds and stocks issued

Secretary for India in the Labour Govern-Tokyo money market on the same date: ment, always pronounced it "ca-fecg- ory. If he were as popular sử the Prince of Wales, he would soon have the majority of us saying "ca-teeg-ory."

Such differences of pronunciation are, of course, confounding to foreigners, and the B.B.U. will be doing something useful they induce us to settle on a single way of speaking a word, but that service will not be of first-rate importance. We may continue to say "cat-e-gory" or agree to adopt Lora Olivier's pronunciation, ca-teug-ory and yet remain inaudible

to the majority of those who listen to

13.

There is an extraordinary amount of slovenly speaking to be heard to-day. People mumble and mutter to such an extent that most of us have to guess what The English people is being said to us. are lazy enunciators; they have a strong tendency to shorten words, and are re luctant to open their mouths and speak distinctly. Many people, in all classes, speak without parting their teeth and with the least possible movement of their lips they practise a sort of inarticulate ventriloquism.

change of the new shares in the Kanega "%

Quotations on the Tokyo Stock Ex- fuchi Cotton Spinning Co. fature delivery on the 10th of this month: 151 yen 20 sen.

Yokohama and Kobe during last month: Quantities of raw silk exported from 43.607 bales.

Quotation of raw silk for future de- the 10th of this month: 174 yen 10 Ben. livery on Yokohama Silk Exchange on

Kobe on the same date: Yen 14.36.

Price of Habutae plain "Echizen " at

month: 202,000 bales.

Output of cotton yarn during last

during last month: 7,634 bales.

Quantities of eptton yarn exported

future delivery on Osaka Merchandise Quotation of cotton yarn standard for Exchange on the 10th of this month: Yen

993.10.

Quantities of cotton pięce goods ex- The letter cannot be properly spoken ported during last month: Unknown unless the mouth is opened.

Quotation of standard rice of future But the delivery on Tokyo Rice Exchange on the Cockney is too lazy to open his mouth 10th of this month: Yen 26.07. and say the round o, so he turns the vowel into a diphthong by flattening his lips: he says It is physically impossible to say "ow with open- tips: as the sound is uttered, the lips, which begin by being open, close and flatten.

Stage And Church.

last month according to the return by Index number of wholesale price for the Bank of Japan: 34

country during last month: 6,045 million Amount of bills cleared throughout the

[ yen.

Merchandise in stock throughout the country at the end of the month: Un- Trans-Pacific freight rate for lumber at

most of the words, would be mis-spelt: father would be spelt" farther," and farther father."

Com

I do not know of a more hideous and disturbing noise than the sound of a flat-known. tened vowel. Twenty-five years ago an educated person would have been morti. the begining of this month; G.29. hed, if any, member of bis family had said ow when he meant "," but to-day the flattened vowel is commobiy ased by the lower, the middle, and the *pper classes; and people actually The astounding fact about the debase. iniagine themselves to be speaking in a ment of the spoken language is that very correct and refined manner when, in people who would be infuriated if a poct fact, they are using an emasculated form were to use what are called Cockney of a speech that was considered the rhymes, for example,

and height of vulgarity less than thirty years" dawn," will themselves habitually pro-

nounce those words as if they were pure rhymes: they turn corn into " cawn" and morn" into mawn." But why is it an outrage for a poet to rhyme,

dawn with

"Corn and "mora 23. with lawn," when, in their daily peech, the majority of educated Englishmen pronounce them if they rhymed ? Keats was severely reproved for using Cockney rhymes. To-day he might justly plead that the general pronunciation has made pure rhymes of them.

ago.

Wherever I go in England I hear the lattened vowel; it is commonly heard in the theatre, where at least three of our most eminent actresses habitually use it It is epidemic in the church; one of the bishops notoriously has a marked. Cock ney accent, and a celebrated dean has a voice so painfully "refaned" that people who have respect for speech suffer agonies in Listening to him. I remember sitting next to a distinguished dramatist while this ecclesiastic-a man of very great The very ugly Cockneyiam of turning ability was speaking, I said. to the the vowel a into something like a long dramatist. Can you hear what the dean causes a considerable amount of confu- is saying "He replied, "No I can sion to English-speaking people who are hear a dull, confused noise, but I can't not Cockneys. A Cockney will pronounce hear any of his words!!!

the name Ada Payne," as if it wore The principal complaint I have to make Ida Pine" he says "lite" when be against the Cockneyfication of our lang-meanslate and gives a most displens-

nage is that it is difficult to hear. When ing nasal note to his words. Is it any people not only flatten their vowels, but wonder, then, that people are sometimes also elide their r's and even elide whole totally unable to understand what he is syllables, then bearing what they say is saying? A London bus conductor lately almost impossible. It does not greatly besaught his passengers to Kineyo ti matter whether we lengthen or shorten pees!"

the indirectly," but it does enor

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It was quite a while before some of mously matter if we elide it. Thousands them realized that he was urging them of people say "dreckly" when they mean to Kindly hold tight, please!"-Daily

directly just as thousands of people fait...

Leay astrawding when they mean extraordinary, I lately listened to a group of people getting themselves. thoroughly muddled about the name of-a lady called "Bryan," because all of them used nearly the same sound for it that they would have used for "Brown": it was quite a while before the lady's name was, understood

A SURE REMEDY

FOR INDIGESTION.

Words Commonly Mispronounced. peIt is a fact well known to physicians that To such an extent bas-this Cockney-about 90 per cent, of the cases of indigestion, fcation of the English language, pro-stomach troatle, dyspepsis, flatulence, etc., are ceeded that there are people who have due, directly or indirectly to the presence of the audacity to assert that there is no har ful acid in the stomach. From this it is difference in sound between such words eri'ant that correction and, prevention of the asfather" and "farther and "stor rouble depend almost entirely on neutralizing

the acid. The meat

and "stalk" and "marah" and mash

If the average person in London is to take a test sensible way of doing this

to dictate those six words in that order to mine out of ten people, without any context to guide them, I am certain that (Continued on next column.).

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