Word: englished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Neogy dropped in at Nehru's office in New Delhi, plumped on the prime minister's desk a pouch containing 815 letters. In English, Sumiko Kanatsu, a girl pupil in Negishi primary school, wrote: "At Tokyo zoo we can only see pigs and birds which give us no interest. It is a long cherished dream for Japanese children to see a large, charming elephant.. Can you imagine how we want to see the animal?" Said Masanori Yamato of Seisi grade school: "The elephant still lives with us in our dreams...
Elsewhere in Canada, leading newspapers judged the news on its merits, took sides only in their editorial columns. A survey made by the Ottawa Citizen near the end of the campaign showed that the circulation strength of the English-language papers backing the Liberals was close to 1,000,000, the Tories had about 800,000. Not a single daily editorially supported either the Socialist CCF, the Social Crediters or the Communists...
Bernard Shaw this week warned foreigners visiting Britain to speak broken English: "Even among English people, to speak too well is a pedantic affectation. In a foreigner it is something worse than an affectation. It is an insult to the native who cannot understand his own language when it is too well spoken...
...ship by radar through the night until the British battle cruiser Hood and the new battleship Prince of Wales could go into action. What happened next shocked British witnesses and was soon to shock the world. One minute the swift battle cruiser Hood, biggest ship of the English fleet, was methodically firing from her 15-inch guns as she closed with the enemy. Two or three minutes later, she had sunk from sight. At around 25,000 yards, the Bismarck had sent the Hood down with only five or six salvoes. With another dozen or so, she drove the Prince...
...Troubaders, Braves Field's three piece band which played for 1929 yesterday, found themselves joined by a familiar musician from the class-Williams English professor Koy Lamson, who back in the late Twenties founded the Harvardians, a band which for years was the Gold Coast's best known dance unit . . . Lamson has since become as accomplished performer on the recorder as well his native clarinet...