The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03
Th prime minsher iv England may be gettn up from TIL tay
table an sayin where's lid? mus skiddo'"

boob or a bonehead," manin, v coorse that
TIL defective is mug But if they name mug,
why don't they say mug? Th' common term,
racy iv tn soil, fl prominent feature iv th'
human countynance, was formerly boko.' Now,
l understand, it is supplanted aven in tn best
circles be tn ne--I can't pronounce this wurrud,
Hinnissy = neealogsm,-- "beezer." We had
thurly descriptive wurrud fr an onruy person iv
til lswer ordhers. We called him Hooigan,"
which conveys tn precise manin' besides ind-
catn that all onruly persons iv til lower ordhers
is Irish. They use til vulgar expression tough.
To suggist admiration f'r action they coarsely
say it is bully" while our more refined term
wud be top-hole or in certain instances, spif-
fng" We have stately OF name f'r an officer iv
tn polis We call him bobby That de-
scrbes him acerately. 1t is historically correct an
names just what it says. That's what polisman
is. He's bobby, an no person who reveres tn
language that Milton sung in liver thought "
calm him cop" TIL other day heerd wan
iv these outlanders refer to beautiful lady as
pippin. She was, indeed, toppin' fine gal, but
why pippin? Let Englshmen who have their
counthry's slang at heart have care Already tn
Goth has infected our music halls our univars-
ties, an even more exalted circles. His rude
speech is insidyously creepin' into Our most re-
fined conversation, an onless we make deter
mined stand his bloomin' cant will as these
Beotians wud say, put our noble English chatter
on til blink
Ye can see he's cross about it. It's th' first
time I've ver been called Beotian. Pm goin'
to look it up in tn ditchnry, an if it's what
think it is I'm goin' to write to Our cornerstone
layer extraordinary an aftherd dinner-speaker
plilipotinchry about it. I don't want to interrupt
his oficyal jootes as paror intertaner but I'll
have no man call me out iv me name without
protist
An with tn best intntions in tl' wurruld
not to deface tn English speech, what ar-re we
goin' to do about it? I'd like to know Pm tn
last man to want to make Englishmen talk
diff rent firm what they do There ar-re too few
funny things in tn wurruld as it is. r-read the
article to Hogan an he says it's purely economic
question. Here we ar-re on this side. he says, tn
gr-reatest manufacturers iv slang iver known.
We projooce yearly more slang thin amy ten
Euro-peen nations an fifty times more thin we
need at home. No American citizen is obliged to
use TIL same slang f'r more thin day at time.
Th' poorest cam find fresh supply ivry mornin'
in his favrite journal. If there was nawthin' else
our common language cud subsist on TIL game iv
baseball alone
What ar-re we goin' to do with TIL oversup-
ply? We've got to find market Fl it, SO, says
Hogan, we ship it all over tn globe ontil on TIL
plains v Arabya TIL camel dhriver addresses tn
ship iv tR desert as skate; in far off Cathay,
bedad, mandarin is like as not to ordher TIL
executioners to bean pris sner; an TIL sultan iv
Turkey, whn told that tn Balky Christyans ar-re
murdhrin' each other over tn land they hooked
firm him, turns to his grand vizyers an says:
shud sob. but I've lost me pocket hankerchief,'