Word: englished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your article on the British economic crisis [TIME, Aug. 29] practically ignores the U.S. tariff as a cause of Britain's dollar hunger. How much importance should be attached to it, and what are the facts? I wish to buy an English overcoat this fall. If I pay $100, how much of it will go to our Government as tariff ? How much will stay with the American merchant as profit? How much will get back to England...
...Reader Battle's typical coat is divided roughly three ways: tariff charges are about $18.50, U.S. traders (who bear the costs of handling & merchandising) get $31.50. The remaining $50 goes to the English manufacturer, who can then pay his bills for imported wool...
Using two columns of print and four languages (Spanish, Chinese, Arabic and English), they announced defiantly: "That's right, Mahwah. Spelled M-A-H-W-A-H." What's more, they went on, Mahwah (from the Indian, Maa Eway -"meeting place") is a real-life township of 5,000 souls, about 25 miles from New York City. Many of the citizens commute to Manhattan every day, some work in a local plant of the American Brake Shoe Co., others grow apples and all of them have had enough from incredulous strangers. Said...
Like every Canadian Prime Minister, St. Laurent faces the problem of bridging the gulf between English and French. His own French-Irish background, his perfect bilingualism, have already contributed a lot toward bringing French-and English-speaking Canada closer. He himself never uses the term "French Canadian"; his phrase is "French-speaking Canadians." But wise Politician St. Laurent knows that French-speaking Canada can not be brushed off with symbols and phrases. He has been methodically building up French Canadian representation in the civil service, where it had fallen well below the 2-to-1 ratio of Canada's English...
...only English-language newspaper left in Shanghai, of the four flourishing when the Communists took over, is the British-owned, 99-year-old North China Daily News. Last week the Communists banned distribution of news by foreign news agencies, left "the Old Lady of the Bund" with little news to print...