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“ENGLISH AS SHE IS SPOKETM IN THE YEAR 2000.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SHARK FISHING AT SINGAPORE

Sequel To Diver's Injury.

Bluejackets on their way home;

It is a great pity that so many ... countless centurice of articul ation are lost for record purposes, [but I bad Ulustrated for me how, Sealed Records for Posterity, by means of X-ray photography, the changes in English pro What will the English language nunciation take place. The from China on the teamər sound like in the year 2000 A.D.?formation of the organs of speech Betlemphor, spent a great deal of!

This is one of the many fascin in all phases of articulation are their time during their brief stay ating problems now being studied photographed and analysed, and at Singapore, in fishing for A: London University College in that is the way in which up-sharks in the neighbourhood of Gower-street.

known languages are deciphered West Wharf, where the Bellero- and interpreted for purposes of phan has been lying. The incident modern study.

which led up to the bluejackets For instance, there is ons]adopting this pustima wAS A TO- change taking place in our crettable one, for some language to day which is very hours after the Bellerophon's They are studying the English dicult to prove except by this arrival a Malay boy diver, diving of the past, and the pronunciation X-ray method. It is noticeably for coins apng into the of today, and are analysing the spreading everywhore, and has water from the ship bad changes which are rapidly taking been observed by phonate sto-his leg practically torn off by place in "the King's English."

| deuts, not only in Scotland, but all one of several sharks which had We teach English pronuncia- tion here." said Professor Jones over the country. It is called the followed the ship in from the

It is occupying the close at tantion of a brilliant group of phoneticians, who are umle: the supervision of Professor Daniel Joney!

to a Press representative, but It is the type known as Southern educated English."

There is no standard English pronunciation." he added, "Who is going to make it?"

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glottal stop." This is an ex-roads, and he is reported to have. ample of it: Instead of saying, since died.

"I put the water in the bottle,“ A large piece of beef, of abouti is said phonetically this way, eleven or twelve pounds, was

I put the war-ur in the bob-al” obtained from the butcher's shopi This is not exactly a true and fastened to a large shark rendering, but the fashion of book on the end of a stout rope suddenly stopping the glotti and flang into the son. Within down is growing so much that in twenty minutes a large famale)

sbark bad been hooked, by Fears' time the word matton" is likely to be pro-

Mr. G. Purdy, and being brought

of by rile fire. The shark Was found to be 9 feet inches in length, measuring over

The other day I had two Hindas bere put in Mr. Lloyd *ľamsa, his senior assistant," and,

n hearing them speak. I said, 100 Your English was taught you!

a Scotsman. They admitted dounced "muh-un." That is an to the surface," was disposed And then Miss Ward, another opinion expressed by Professor Josgue, added. "I was speaking Jones.

Kas Jap here yesterday, and I said Another aspect for consider-15 feet in girth, and 2 feet 2 inches You were taught English by anation of what our grandchildren's across the jaw. The shark was American. And this shot proved children will talk like is the cut up by the Chinese coolies true,"

admission of new wards into the working on the ship, the teeth Our language is changing ac-dictionary. Words are rolling and jaw-bones being quickly seize cording to certain laws as im-in from all parts, and a very ed

upon by the exilors 25 mutable as those of the Medes and valuable asset when completed

Souvenirs. Parsions. Ther quoted me an ex- will be the Army slang diction- | The line was again thrown ample. Take the word "time."ary now being compiled under over and some two hours later an Before Chaucer this word was pro-the direction of Major Houlkes.

aven larger shark was hooked. nounced "teem."Through the cen- And as new words come inbat succeeded in getting free. turies it gradually changed so with new pronunciation, so others Operations were continued dur that in Shakespeare's era die. Whoever to-day hears of ing the night and yesterday but was pronounced something like the word "Samuel being pro-without result.

taime."

NO CESSATION OF CHANGE The movement of change woat on to the present day, when it is pronounced "time." but there is no cessation of change, and it is probable that in A. D. 2000 it will b. pronounced "taime."

eat.

|nounced "Samivel "as Mr. Well- er would have it? Professor A. J. Ellis, in bis works, declared that he had never remembered coming across an instance, and it is likely that the fashion for making the

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Will our posterity speak more charity. a clasa dialect more than a local quickly than we do? This is The Congress of the inter- dialect, but it is liable to be hard to say, and Professor Jones national Athletic Society has in Buenced by local dialecte and his colleagues paint out that decided that the next internation- Each speaker imports into it there is no record to go by though al championship meeting will be something of his own local form it has been asserted by Professor held at Stockholm in the spring of speech, whether it be a rustic Wild in his history of modern of 1922. dialect or the vulgar cockney of colloquial English that the ten- The big trout competition held [T London, Liverpool or any other dency to slipsbod speech is by no during the past

in Demand large town."

means a modern tendency. Os connection with the Galashiels 30 dis One might well ask whether all the other hand, outside influences Working Men's Angling Associa- | 10 d/s our children are going to speak amaking one age more neurotic tion has been won by James fram of Cockney in future. The than another are bound to react MTanes with A fish which f/T Shanghai. ents admission I could obtain upon the delivery of a nation's weighed 2 lb. 114 oz.

TFT Singapore.... for the phoneticians was that small talk.

The Scottish League are EFF Japan these changes could be delayed!

considering the question of T India. artificially, but the laws

players benefits so that the Demand, India phonetics would prevail in the

matter may be placed on a more TT San Francisco

& New York.] We are making records here round the question as to what is

A huge controversy has raged satisfactory basis.

The Australasian Rugby Ten TT JavB .......................... of all sorts of English, and they the "correct" English. Onel have taken to themselves abou: T/T Marks are being sealed up and deposited might, without anything more £13,000 up to date as their share IT Francs ..... for historic reference, and one than superficial consideration, in the tour. The cast of the Demand, Paris .......... day we hope to have ao Intern-have plumped for "public school trip was estimated to be about atronal Institute of Speech in the pronunciation rather than, say. £16,000, and as there were 16

2/85% archives of which will be deposit the dialect of Wiltshire or the games to be played, including a

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oops and shs" of Yorkshire Test, there was every prospect of

2/914 a good balance on the right side. & mfx. LIC

H. Le Vack, the crack rider of 30 d/s Sydney and 2/103 But even this public school Icdian motor cycles, has added

Melbourne phonetics is derived from región- Some idea of this great work at and class dialects, and the several records to the already long 30 d/s. Ban Francis-1 list achieved by him. The bigbest co&New York} as given me by M. James who aathorities at University College speed attained was 10734 miles per 4 m/s. Marks................. is himself working hard upon point out with an obstinacy that our, one mile an hour over his

i mia. Franca... Zalu. "In Africa there are sever- must be exasperating to some al bundred languages absolutely schools of thought, that there are dying start. With a sidecar at Demand, Germany.

own record for a kilometre from a ma. France... untouched." he said. **The differences between the "Oxford Bantu race alone has 200 different accent" and say, the

tached be broke both short and Demand, New York 545% languages. All of these languages ton or Scottish University way for 100 miles being 70.13 m.p.h as Demand, Bombay... 19412 ******** Nom. long distance records, his speed T/T Bombay await scientific investigation." of spee. h.

against his own previous best of IT Calcutta...... Nom. 1944 Demand, Calcutts ... **If I taught English in Scot-61.98 m.p.b.

11314 The West of Scotland Cricket On Yokohama....... land and delivered a lecture as

have

11516 Herbert Demand, Manila engaged Lloyd James, I should not be Wilson, of Eastwood, Notis, as Demand, Singapore. 1114 *pecial international phonetic tolerated. I should have my their professional for 1922. He Demand, Batavis Fcript, but to hear the silvery pronunciation described as mine was a member of the ground staff a Haiphong

FOTO LET at Trent Bridge and has played On Saigon Yoice of Miss Ward reading ing South-eastern English."

On Bangkok Chaucer's poems as

the poet

But when all is said about for the county.

P. Morfee, the fast bowler, who Sovereign himself would have loved to hear these finer distinctions of Eng. them read was like being sudden-lish pronunciations and the in-used to be well known in Scotland, Gold leaf per Tuel... ly awakened in the midst of an possibility of getting a metical is leaving bis old Lancashire Bar Silver, ready... 351

forward.

347% early pastoral English scene. ous exactitude for our language. League club, Todmorden.

Bank of England rates 5% There is a tendency for dialects it is an undoubted fact that Eng-

New York/London... 4.2316 to die out with the spread of lish is growing in importance all education and improving tran-over the world. Thus the Gov- *port, and one of the valuable ernment of Latvia, the State works which the dialect socia-which recently broke away from ties up and down the country Russia geographically, has de- Ere doing is to preserve the cided to place English, as the minority forms of the English rat foreign language upon its language. But î: would educational curriculum. bez great task to do for the British Isles what Prof. Joseph Wright has done for the Wind- hill dialect in a suburb of Ship ley, Yorkabire.

It is difficult to reproduce here the immense changes which have

taken place in our English as it

Kensing-

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T. P, CLAXTÓN, Dirsetor, how each "human group beld Pronunciation will be very differ-

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HL K. Observatory, Jan. 13. GORYVISS.

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*Should the time ball be out of (order the abure zoutine will" be carried out with the fing "Z", en the storm signal mast.

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B.K. & Lamecks.. South coast of The same China between

H.K. & Hainan.)

No. 19

ZT. CLAXTON, Director. ELK. Observatory, Jan. 19, 1922.

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