Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-16
l could hardly speak, l was SC
daZed.

of still hunt with me. | down every
queer name l could find and set it down in
a little black book just to show slow-golng
Americans at home what was doing in the
language. 1t is an incredible list. Some of
the twistings are SO grotesque that my good
Yankee friends won't believe when l pro-
nounce them. It's like learning English all
over again.
to me Mrs. Bewly and lost n heart to her;
but that's another story. found out afterward
with another terrible shock that she spelled
herself Beaulieu. l said, How can you do
such things?" and she never knew what l
meant. But, Bewly or Beaulieu, she was ador-
able.
played golf with fine chap at ST. Andrews,
and never knew for a week that he had one of
those freak names. called him Claverse and
alas spelled him Claverse; but he did the
A Mr.. BLY, turned out really according to
his card, to be Mr.. Blythe, and Mr.. Cunsbro
came out very handsomely on paper as
~onisborough.
1T seems that the average American knows
all about the eccentricities of such we'll known
names as Cholmondeley and Belvour and
Buccleugh and Manwaring and Marjoribanks
and Madeline: but / didn't. l pronounced
them as they are spelled and was duly aston
ished when they were translated for me like
this: Chumley, Beever, Mannering Marsh
banks, and Mawdlin.
| bought some golf clubs of man named
Klore; but he spelled it Clogher.
The milliner who made hat for my good
mother had a nice shining sign over her shop
that read Bethune: but knew she called her
self something else, and upon inquiry found
the trick was Beeton.
Gladstone's old home is spelled Hawarden,
but pronounced Harden. l felt sorry at that
for liked to think the Grand Old Man was
above such things; but they all get the habit
in England, it seems, for there's that other
grand old man, the Earl of Wemyss, who calls
himself Weems.
All in One Family
A LOVELY little old lady with snow white
hair and bewitching little beribboned
cap called herself Mrs Renslev; but she was in
truth Mrs. Wrensfordsley. Her daughter was
married to fine isht English officer named
SelOus and he pronounced 1t Seloo.
A Mr.. Ruthven in a shooting party with
me. He called himself Riven. A little girl
with face like angel and the manners of
half a dozen angels. told me her name was
Muriel Sienger. and asked her slyly to spell
it for me. 1t turned out to be St Leger. It's
pityl said right out loud. She said. What
is" with her angel eyes upon me, and an
swered with deceptive smile That you don't
belong to me-" and she never knew how sorry
| was for her.
The most beautiful woman in England is
Lady Pole-Carew, and do you know her Lady
ship pronounces it Pool-Cary
attended a house party in Surrey. There
were twelve people present, and six of them had
trick names. These were they: Meux, pro-
nounced News; kirkcudbright, pronounced
kirkoobry; Pontifract, pronounced Pomfret;
Haweis, pronounced Hois: Ayscough, pro-
nounced Askew; and Waldegrave, pronounced
Waulgrave.
And these are only a tenth of the strange per-
versions in nv little black book Now who do
the funner things with the English tongue, the
English themselves or the denizens of the
States!