The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-07-28
C, [. & THEO. BERING
MAIN ST. AND CAPITOL AVE

We took whole day off when he made
some casual comments upon the 'meticu
ION pudencies' of Nine Ternina These
lhIhSs suggest Mr.. Vance Thompson in his
most inspired moments; only If Mr.. Vance
thompson had written them down, he
would have done ii with Il serious George
Moore sort OF intensity; whereas. Mr.. Hun.
thef, VINO is a scholar, WAS simply having
Inn With the language and no dculU
chqckled hugely when connecting them.
Evidently he Inspired his other col
leagues on the same newspaper to a splen
dld emulation, FOR we notice that the
suns London correspondent In writing
about the accident to Shamrock III said
that Sir Thomas Upton spoke Of the ac-
cident Mechanically" "Mclauchullly" is
very good. 1t has a beautifully tangled
up liquid inarticulatencss; and when you
a hot potato In your mouth. Then there
Is Prof. Salntsbury, In his NHistory Of
Criticism fishing out of the remote past
all sorts of archaic curiosites OF suepch
mainly for the purpose OF showing how
much he has read of Bishop Hail and
jeremy Taylor and other good and great
men Of the past These things may all Dc
justified, because they DO occur in the
classic writers of Seventeenth and Eight
zenith century English, but when they APP
ear side by side with the neoogismls an1
scml-vugallsms of which Prof Salntsnury
Is also very fond, they produce the effect
which would he caused by the sight of
Greek choragic monument in the midst OF
a beer garden
or different sort are the words that
have risen TO the surface from the sub
stratum of our urban life. Chief Deyery
may not he good man, and we rather IN
fer tnat he would not be particularly CON.
plimcnted If he We're so described; bat
philologists owe him Il debt of gratitude
for having contributed to the language "
the day the adjective ''chesty." "Chesty'
is a beautiful word and Ike all words
which are evolved by the rude, untutOrel
yet vigorous men who are numbered among
tiQ powers that prey, II is wonderfully OK
presslve and pictorial Devery dill MT
invent II, but he gave 1t currency; and
for this much may he forgiven him
SpeakIng of language reminds us Of
sentence which occurs in Mr.. Mabies story,
John Foster" the first part of which APP
rCared in this magazine last month. The
sentence Is as follows: Pears like as II he
hadn't cum out so bad after all, In writ
Ing this sentence Mr. MHbie has adopted
ers of dialect stories ana which was purtic-
ularly noticeable in the late stephen
Cranes "Red Badge of Courage" The trick
consists in spelling such words as come.
done" some" and the like cum" dun
and sum Now the Implication. OF course,
Is that these spellings represent phOnetcal-
" vulgar as distinguished from Il cult
SEE IL ourselves, We wonder how Mr.. Ma
HE. for example pronounces come or
hou Mr. stephen Crane used to pronounce
"dCne." In most of these words the letter
So has the power of u, the hnal "e
heing silent In the sense that 1t has no
enoct upon the phonetics Of the word rs a
whole The chief exception to This rule is
10 he found in the word "none' which an
enducafed man never prononnces nun.
Rat in most vocahles of this class we think
that dialect writer's are inclined to be
little too dlalectic in their spelling