The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-16

for put out or eXtingush. even put them
things away for those things. However,
these expressions have had their day, and
are no longer good English, as they do not
conform to the present use and custom
that must be the standard in speaking
and writing. The same may be said of
certain ways of pronouncing words now
used only by uneducated and all old-fash-
| Toned people.
1t is easy to prove that these are not
mispronunciations, but only an old pro-
nunciation retained by the people after
the educated classes had given it up. DIR.
johnson gave the accent to the first sylla-
BILE in academy, like melancholy, and par
simony, with Shakespeare as his authori-
ty, and Walker praises those ''who
grieved to see the compound depart so
far from the sound of the simple" with
"heroic fortitude," have opposed the null
titude by pronouncing the first of the
word knowledge as it is in the word to
know He says the pulpit and bar have
| for years given a sanction to this pronun-
citation, but the Senate and the stage hold
out iniexibly against it, and the nation
at large seems insensible to the improve
ment." They continue even IN our day
| to pronounce as in the ludicrous rhyme:
Among the mighty men Of knowledge
That are professors in Gresham College.
The photographers maybe were little
perhaps that was why they seemed fin
sensible to the improvement"
In southern Pennsylvania, where many
examples of metonomy have been OBJ
served cucumber is often replaced by the
general name of pickle, as the thrifty
gardener, anticipating the briny fate that
awaits it, designates the vine and its
fruit
Lantern, DR.. johnson says, is by mistake
of 1an MI f,aF,
rent cases for candles were generally
made of horn and those who did not know
the derivation of the word from the Latin
lanterna we satisfied that this was the
true etymoiogy The wicker-basket-cov-
cred glass jars, used by European peas
ants and sailors, were by them called
Dame Jeanners." Anglicized into demi-
john and known to the colored servants
on an old southern hone as the Jimmy
John"
Archaic is another word that in COM
mon use has lost its classic pedigree, and
has degenerated into "arkey," denoting
something very old-fashioned, with an
imaginary reference to Noah S ark. Words
spelt one way and pronounced another by
some people who are what some people
would call "heavy," are wreck, pro
nounced wrack, which gives us ''wracl1
and ruin - weapon, which they turn into
weepon, and wound, which they rhyme
with sound, following the old lexicogra-
pher, who tells US wound, woond, is a
capricious novelty"
Another of this class of words is chap,
in some localities still pronounced chop.
Walker says the etymoloey of this word
will not suffer us to write it chop; and
universal usage will not permit US to
pronounce it chap. So it must be classed
among the incorrigible words, the pro
nunciation and photography Of which
must ever be at variance. On the other
hand, the Irish are reproved by the
same authority in the year 1915, for pro-
nouncing palm, balm and psalm as If
spelled pawn, bawn and psawn, and now
with little less breath, that is the &C
cepted way in England and permissible in
America.
BIT will the day ever come when col
lus q will mean, as it does in some places,
any large or remarkable kind of gather
ing, even funerals 1t is probably a cor
ruption of collision, for in the same neigh
borhOod two wagons running into each
other would be called collision. Here,
also, they say, instead of lighting a
lamp, "making a candle, and anything
that burns easily is COMMISSIONS"
But the same prophecy was once made
in regard TO CLEVER and "fun" neither
of which could now be spared from the
language.