The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-10-02
Mistakes in Languages.
Mary e. Vandyne in Good Cheer.

Mistakes in Languages.
Mary e. Vandyne in Good Cheer.
my dear nephews and nieces, you
charming inhabitants of glass houses,
don't throw any more stones.
sWhy, Uncle Phil, you don't mean
to say that ave speak incorrectly
Uncle Phil showed his spectacles up
to the middle of his forehead, and pro-
ceeded as follows:
sIt's all very well for you self sufi-
cient graduates of colleges and semina-
ries to find fault when Uncle Joshua
wants the we'll bucket 'h'isted, when
Debby 'renses' the clothes, Aunt Maria
'ketches' cold, Coachman John doc
tors Dobbin's huff, Pete feeds the
screeturs, the cook biles the cranberries,
Bridget asks for 'jolup,' Farmer Grey
reckon its 'ruther cold for plantin' but
concludes to 'resk' it.
Now, Uncle Phil, you know we were
not talking about such mistakes 1t was
when Annie Hughes asked the clerk for
these kind of gloves, and then inform
ed us that DR.. Burton always preached
'extem bore,' that May and I began to
wonder how people who pretended to
be educated could be guilty of such
blunders.'
That's nothing, girls, this from
Jack, a graduate of Harvard,-1 asked
one of the teachers at the High School,
this morning, if he ever played base
ball, and he said he used to could.
Fancy that!'
upGIi1 che s4eI r1orloaA.~ se..ezels1--d o'ura
front of the fire.
$50 you really think, young people,
that you are exempt from the weakness
of misusing the English language. What
will you say if call attention to no less
than six mistakes made by you three, in
utter Inconsistencies, since you enter
ed this room this morning.
'Try it, Uncle, try it. We haven't
been studying rhetoric and grammar
this last four years for nothing. Re-
member, you are to find six mistakes
made by the three of us within three
hours
'Atem!'
Uncle Phil INDUCED in something
that vas almost but not quite wink,
as he looked at Jack.
well begin with you, Jack. 1st.
This last four years.
ooh! that's too mean
is lit? Then I won't call attention
to tile three of us.'2
you mean, Uncle, that Jack should
have said Mese last four years. and 'us
thres'1'
lido, my dear. And I also have in
minc young lady who criticised her
friends way Of asking for gloves, and
that when she handed me an orange,
asked me to 'cut it in half.
Ishould have said, in halves
Eyes, or fin two One can scarcely
cut thing in one-half.
sWhat else did l say?'
well: Whose dress was to be trim
MEG Iengthways,' instead of length
wiser Who discovered that it was very
cold last Feb uary,' and not last FEB.
ruary?' Ofwhose class at Sunday-school
did hear that EVERY one was to have
their and not his or her reward r.
stop, Uncle. That is three for me,
and of the six mistakes you have only
left one for May
Perhaps haven't made any.
Uncle Phil smiled.
where did you go this morning
Mayi',
rv .iiy dvpoL
'Ah! Do you know that depot is
French word, and means simply store
house, or place of deposit, and ha
nothing whatever to do with a structure
for the shelter of passengers, built a
points where railroad trains stop. You
never hear the word depot used in an!
such connection in England. Our Ian
guage supplies the word Station O
'Station-house, and only a very cult
waited CD American who prefers for
eign language he doesn't understand t.
his own better-supplied tongue, woult
ever replace it by French word that
entirely misnomer.'
Il wonder how many more mistake
, are current among us, Uncle PHILIP
Il won't call your attention to an.
,, more to-day. Think over these, ant
, I'll see how many more find you guilt.
. of some otl,er time