The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-25
Manner" or "ManOr?"-BOth.

Editor Palatka News:
In an item which appeared in last
weeks issue of The News, you
made use of this expression: "To the
manor born" This Is evidently a
quotation from Shakespeare, whose
uses the expression "to the manner
born" You will note that Shakes
peare spells the word manner"
while you spell it manor" Now
which is correct? Yours truly, A
Reader. Crescent City, Dec. 21st.
Both are correct. The words are
not the same, except in pronouncia-
ton. They have different meanings;
neither is the form used by The
News quotation from Shakespeare.
In the fourth scene of the first act
of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, the
Prince had met Horatio and Marcel
lus at night by appointment; these
gentlemen were to take Hamlet to
certain place where his fathers
ghost had appeared on a previous
night. 1t was near the hour for
the Ghost to appear when this con-
versation took place:
Hamlet. What hour now?
Horatio. l think it lacks of twelve.
Marcellus. No, it is struck.
Horatio. Indeed? | heard it not;
it then draws near the season,
wherein the spirit held his won't to
walk "a flourish of trumpets, and
shot off, within.) What does
this mean, my lord?
Hamlet. The king doth wake to-
night, and takes his rouse,
Keeps wassel, and the staggering
up-spring reels;
And, as he drains his draughts of
Rhenish down,
The kettle-drum and trImpets thus
bray out
The triumph of his pledge.
Horatio. Is it a custom?
Hamelt. Ay, marry, is't:
But to my mind,-though | am ma
tive here,
And to the manner born-it is a
custom
More honored in the breach, than
the observance.
This heavy-headed revel, east and
west,
Makes US traduced, and tax'd of
other nations:
They clepe (calD us drunkards,
and with swinish phrase
Soil or addition; and, indeed, it
takes
From our achievements, though
perform'd at height,
The pith and marrow of our attri-
butte.
You will note that the king was on
what we moderns call a "razee;" he
vas "boozing," so to speak, and
iancing, and having a nights car
,usal At the hour, when grave
Yards are supposed to yawn, there
was a blare from within the hall
where the king was making merry;
his blare of kettle-drum and trum-
BET came at midnight. Horatio,
turning to Hamlet, asked if it is the
nightly revels with
he blare of trumpet? Hamlet re-
plying, says it is, but to his mind
.hough he is a native and to the man.
Ter born-a custom, more honored
n the breach than the observance.
The word manner" here used by
Hamlet, means custom. If you will
'efer to your Webster you will find
me of the definitions of the word
manner" is; (4) a characteristic or
way of acting; natural or
FORMAL behavior; habit, usage; Gus
ON; as to act after the manner of
mes kind" Hamlet was a native:
.hese midnight caroIsals of the king
we're a custom or manner" to which
ne was born, but to which he was
low explaining his objections, or for
which he was making apology.
The word"manor" means habita-
ion, village; the house or hall of an
estate; mansion.
And it was in this connection that
The word was used in The News. He
was born in the town. might have
been better understood, as we have
no manor" house, but are all of
what might be termed common clay.
Most men who consider themselves
BIG guns are Cnlv smooth horas