The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-11-01
NEED L|NGU|ST
FOR PR0v|NC|ALS
Friends and Relatives Of English SOL
dlsrs Make Policeman Gasp and
Wit At Their Peculiar
Talk.
DIALECT IS CONFUSING
AIdershot Camp Covers One Hundred
Square Miles and Causes
Confusion by Its
Great Area.
by P. NJ. Sarl. United Press stan
Correspondent

l~S ! Az. SOAAs SLAISu 1853 1880
Correspondent
ALDERSHOT. Eng, Oct. H. (By
mail to New York )-"Wot we want
ERE is 'hinterpreter." gasped the
stolid Hampshire policeman on duty
at the down" platform gate. A noisy
group had just left him and despite
the rawness OF the October air. he was
wiping the perspiration from his fore.
head.
Friends Of the German prisoners,
suppose?" I ventured, but the rail
way policeman snorted contemptu.
ously.
Germans No, we don't ave no
trouble with them. We turns 'em over
to the G. M. P. Garrison Military
Police) It's those bloomin' provin.
cials who come down to see the new
'rookies!' oh, lor' 'eres another
lOt.''
Judged by London standards, the
policeman might have been consider
ed provincial himself, SO stayed
to hear what manner OF dialect had
aroused his ire. very soon found
out and heartily sympathixed with the
man for the fresh ''lot" were friends
and relations Of Kitchener's army, and
they spoke languages that are heard
only In the wild parts of the High
lands, the northern coal fields, north
Wales, and glorious Devon
Hey. mon, dye ken the hwheera.
boots o. tn Camer-r-oons? Ave a
BARN hoose listed in them. but Am
nae sa sure to (which battalion.''
This comparatively understandable
question came from plump Scotch
woman, but before any policeman
friend had puzzled out the name of
the regiment he was assstled by a
score more.
"Ye divn't kna woor Geordie's
a-sogerin', div We? He belangs tn
Newfoundland Foosiliers.' This
from thick-set Newcastle collier.
lay, meester. OF be a-zeekin'
t'Zoomerzet Loight Invantree. Old
be mortal bleezed du zee II eed tell oil
wheer UNI lives"
The policeman reeled under the
western accent, but recovered some
what under the easier dialect Of the
Black country.
Dyer gunner, l got a pei l. tn
Kings Ryal Rifles. Spose yer down't
knaw w'ereabahts e kips,' (sleeps).
Unnerving as this sort of thing is,
it is nothing to what the unfortunate
policemen, and railway officials, have
to put up with them when the en-
qufrers learn that "Aldershot," in the
military sense, is very comprehens-
i've term
Der of camps covering an area Of per-
haps a hundred square miles, and it
is no satisfaction to the Buxton father
who wants to see his boy in the Sher-
wood Foresters, to be told that he
ought to have booked to Frenshaw,
ten miles away.
Boot. t. onishul address is Oldar.
short" says irate Buxton, who pro-
ceeds to express his indignation IN the
incomprehensible dialect of mid-Der-
byshire.
The Shropshire veteran, who finds
)
regiment is in the Aldershot command.
he is eight miles from his objective.
the old Scotch "crofter". who is ask
ed to walk twelve miles to Borden
for BARN in the "Heelan Leet In
fantry:" and the pitman fra DOOM
who is seeking his "luud' in the Dur
ham light infantry at Working; all
objurgate the authorities in their own
tongues and threaten the perspiring
officials with ''pook O. TIL snoot,' or
o clip O. tn lug
My policeman positively beamed
when out Of this babel OF tongues. he
was able to recognize the anathema
of chirp little Cockney. who asked
to walk sixteen miles to and from his
brothers quarters at Breakdown. char
acterized Aldershot and its surround
ings as "Blithin' cocyed shop