The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-04-13
do NOT SPEAK
SAME LANGUAGE
ENGLAND AND UNITED STATES
DIFFER IN VOCABULARY BUT
DO NOT REALIZE 1T.
Neither Speak the Language They
Read or That Writers Write
English Write to Please Amer
leans for Revenue Only
BY RoeERT MCCORMICK
Special Correspondent The
Intelligence.

WRITTEN AT ST. oMER, midnign,
March $50 little effort has been
made TO explain the English to the
! Americans and such explanations is
so necessary.
will take advantage OF the MID.
night quiet OF this headquarters town
TO jot down the discoveries that have
come through being immersed in
countless thousands of them-the best
Of them-the mess companions OF the
immortal dead. the corpses OF tomor.
row. the men who die that their ideals
! may live. the Englishmen like ours OF
Charlottesville. Chickamauga. or Ap-
pomattox.
We and the English do not speak
the same language. and we don't real
lie IL. We both use the same written
language. suppose fully half OF the
books read by Americans are from
English authors This familiarizes
the American with the English written
vocabulary. Quite one-half or the
English writer's incomes are derived
from our side Of the ocean. This leads
the English authors 20 keep within
the comprehensions OF the American
reading public.
Now neither Englishmen nor Ameri-
cans speak the language they read
that writer's write.
Mr.. Bryan and Sir Edward Grey
viii readily understand each other as
long rs they exchange notes. But N
they cit down TO talk IL over they VIII
get on about as well a. Harry Lauder
and Al Jolson.
We never see Englishmen in a mass.
When we meet an occasional one be
fore he has picked up our idioms we
take him for a freak We get no bet
, ter impression OF him than Dickens
did OF Us
Then we have the American VINO
apes the English dialect and oral vo-
, cabulary We know him for fraud
and subcOnsciously associate an men
Of such speech with our undesira BITE
countryman. We also have the Amer
lean lady who. having caught cold IN
London and having seen the carriage
Of the Duchess Of Rutland. has dif-
fercnt voice for the rest Of her natursl
days.
she may also brInE homo n-htcr
complexion and brighter hsir hut
bccauso there are false it does moi fol.
low that every blonde is blesched
Therefore because some plumbers
son travels abroad and arier mat
takes tea for breakfast. and drinks
Scotch ana soda when bottled beer n
available. and wears spate. don't think
that every one who does these things
is 4 fool
have been living with real men
great Character. the same type ~
Jimmy Benefits friends across tho
wir" cntanrlemonts just east Of here.
and they all do these things. and they
talk like the man ln the play They
al wear cares. but they don't jump
Whrn shell bursts near by. and the,
walk into machine gun 1re just al
Funston does
notice With pleasure also hat DOL
sDpfOs, hing the fflng line thsy VAIN
in front u tteif guest and in leaving
% ws2 b-hint Also thsy DO Sc un0s.
tertstiously But their mshbef - Dot
cur manner. ttsif mode o. expression
not ours
] never GOT over The impression that
] vas being held a. arms Length un.
il J saw that they talked n each 9TH
er IN tho same manner they TAXED 70
mo
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