Word: dee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said: "I have long ago given up trying to get English people to pronounce 'Dalziel' correctly. . . . The late Lord Dalziel also accustomed himself to let the wrong pronunciation pass uncorrected. . . . He ceased to maintain the tradition that 'Dalziel' should be pronounced 'Dee...
Village folk of Kirkcaldy in Scotland and of Wooler, on the Scottish border, were discouraged last week by this Triumph of Wrong, and vexed that the fine old name of "Dee-el" has been citified and Londonized into "Dal-zeel...
...make a speech the Rotarian next to her feared the girl was moody: "That comes from being too subjunctive and makes the situation tense." Alice thereupon recited a poem for them. Suddenly her entire audience scuttled and scampered off to escape the American Mercurial twins, Twaddle-dum and Twiddle-dee, now that you mencken it, one with H. L. M. embroidered on his collar, and the other, G. J. N. They conversed solemnly with Alice, and tried to entertain her. But Alice declared herself bored, and immediately the two little men vanished, leaving her to walk the Primrose Path...
Champagne, although far from being the favorite beverage of Wagons-Lits Chairman Davison Dalziel, Baron Dalziel (pronounced Dee-el) of Wooler, figures indispensably in the diet of Lord Dalziel's shrewdly machinating colleague in the management of Wagons-Lits, Captain Jefferson Davis. Cohn, financial adventurer who has ventured to invest heavily in Wagons-Lits stock...
...delighted! Dee-lighted!" said Mr. King in English.* "The Firestone lease occupies only about 1/25 of our rubber lands; and, personally, I like to think of Liberia as the gateway to West Africa by which American capital, manufactures and opinions may enter and spread across all Africa...