The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-11-24
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What's ! Mutiny?
That's Easy!

What's : Mutiny?
That's Easy!
DO YOU know what a mutiny lisp"
said Miesoula mother to her young
! son the other day
"Surest thing you KNOW the boy
Ireplied.
We'll, what is it?'
Why, it's when the main gang turns
against the head guy. that's ALL"
What's Your Worst i,
Telephone elunder?
Dashing on her way to the telc- ]
phone she paused to glance at the
clock
Then she picked up the receiver and
| to central said: .
Half past five, please.'
NO one who uses the telephone will
| lan to recall similar blundcrs, yet who
ever stops when cursing the phone
service to wonder how central Keeps
her mind? Someone has said that the
telephone is responsible for the reve-
iation OF new depths in human deprav-
ny. Perhaps that is true, but the suf-
rering is not all at the paying end OF
| the line.
| Sometimes however biunders may
| react painfully. The Missoula woman
! who figured in the following incident
paid in embarrassment for her own
mistake. She was ordering groceries
by telephone and trying to answer il
/ confusing catechism from her two lit
tie children at the same time. II was
nard task, but at last it was finished
| is that ALP" the polite young man
at the other end Of the telephone asked.
! Just as the baby began to cry for at
tention
! Eyes, that's ALL" said the woman.
Goodbye, dear"
War Makes Many ~ 49,
Changes in Language.
/ What the war is going to do to
/ American speech can be guessed by
any newspaper reader who now finds
'Boche' and ''poilu" in common usage
IN columns which long ago wore to-
trlteress Stacker and doing his bit"
TO meAtion two of the war phrases
which almost Immediately became
parts of current speech
With American troops in France we
may expect almost countless additions
to our speech from the slang Of the
French and British soldiers Indeed,
"blishty" is already /; familiar word.
undoubtedly it will be adopted by the
street when American SOLDIERS get into
action. "Strafc' and "cushy" are 9TH
CT words frequently seen and heard.
Perhaps plates of meat will never
come to mean feet to the Yankee sol
dier. whose word is dogs" But the
poetic charm of gone west" as an i'm
, ,lsyn f.Y u
insure adoption Of the phrase into
American speech. ITO get the wind
up meaning to feel afraid, is another
expressive bit of slang which probably
is too good to die.
Indeed, d new language must lie
learned before Americans will be able
to understand the speech of the Brit
ish Tommy. How many American
readers can understand this soldier,
/ quoted by Ward Muir in observations
Of an Orderly as saying of his frozen
plates of meat"
| When ! went sick the doctor
drought he'd rumbled me swinging the,
| lead. But as soon as he spotted them
| there toes Of mine-the ones that IS
!. gone-l could see he knew I'd clicked
packet. square dnkum, this trip
To rumble" obviously, is to detect
and to Swing the lead" is to malhger
: square dinkum'' means surely
enough" and one easily yucsses that
clicked IL packet means -;lrnca
''blighty."
1t will be interesting, this business of
keeping pace with Sammce's vocabu-
larry, but ii will require close attcn-
ton.
| Much Obliged"