The Springdale news., 1909-09-03
SIDES WITH
 FIR. BAND|N|. PROF. MARINONI DISCUSSES MEANING OF WORD 0Xa{hs. DIX. DOUTHAT IN ERROR. Thinks Father Bandini's Theory More Nearly Correct Than
 .tny Yet Advanced.
DIR. DOUTHAT IN ERROR.

3nf 1et Advanced.
 Prof. 4 Marinoni o1 the Uni vehsity of Arkansas contributes an article to the Little Rock Gazette relative to the derivation and mean ing Of the word ozarks question which has been discussed in the col ums of The News recently by var ious gentlemen As the protfesor takes issue with some of the gentle men who have expressed an opinion through the columns o1 The News, i 1t would seem that t would have l been the proper thing for hfm to have sent his communication to this papef.. but he doubtless de- sired wider constituency i40Wev- CT, We presume he will have 10 ob- jections to The News reproducing his article. which We lake the lib- ertY of doing in order that the readers of this paper may get all sides of the question | .as follows
 To the Editor Of the Gazette. The i Springdale New. a weekly aabli- cation of springdale.Z Ark has lately devoted a great deal of at tention to discussion concerning the meaning of the word 0zafks and it's possible derivation must say tn. in reading eveqZtae greater part of the theroies advanced in ] that newspaper, was more faY- orably impressed with the interest shown in the matter than with the exactness of the historical method And yet. one of the explanations i published in the form 6f com munieation from Father BandiBi Of Tontitown, Ark, previously ad- vaneed, though only in part by Pro ] fessors Shannon and Nelson of the i University of Arkansas. was to my i mind practically conclusive Hence. in view of the fact that, while not exhaustive, the explanation by Father Bandini was entirely satis- factory from the point of view of elementary philology, or better grammar. and corroborated hlstor- ically by seemingly reliable sources 1 thought that the question would come to present halt Accord ingly. a very recent communication from Dr. R. w. Douthat of the University of West Virginia appear ed in the issue of August go of the Springdale News, was q surprise 10 me
 To be sure, autoehoton authority should not be blindly regarded as final, but whenever such privilege is accorded to an outsider. aHpa ently on the strength Of his being geologically conyersanf with this part of the country and because or the prominence that the lecture platform and his connection with d great institution of learning have gained him, l and many others have nevertheless a right 10 be cautious in the acceptance of statements that are given out with great deal of decision, yet intrinsicaliy far from being exhaustive,
 In his letter appearing T the Springdale News if correctly quot ed, the professor from West Nir- ginia states that the French form l a les is equivalent ta aus tthIs is an old form of aux True, the proposition (to1. and the plural ar ticle les tthe), are fused into aux and hence. as to meaning they are equivalent But as regards their pronunciation they are exactly at the antipodes; being pronounced in French lat least in our easel like the of the English word father, and the of les like the q in late Whereas. the an of aux sounds exactly like the in 01arks The of aux is linked n French with following word beginning with a vowel, and when so link ed. sounds exactly like the in Ozarks Therefore, aux is equal to oz. as fas as pronunciation is concerned
 And now comes the more i'm portant point regarding the second