Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...northeast England). As such, he would tend to give his aitches the harsh Teutonic guttural overemphasis of his Nordic ancestors. Never by any misadventure would he drop an aspirate. If he must be rendered phonetically (as you so love to do with cockney taxi drivers, who all seem to say "bloody" every fourth word-and, for the sake of accuracy, I'd like to point out that bloody has been superseded since World War II by a four-letter word as yet unprintable), what he said should have gone something like this: "Jöst fanncie hhav...
Your London correspondent has wronged Will Lawther, president of the National Union of Mineworkers, and local pride. You give him either a cockney or a North Midlands accent when you make him say: "Just fancy 'avin' John L. Lewis comin' over here and tellin' us 'ow to do our bloody jobs. I'd say to 'im, 'When you take our two-foot-nine seams and give us your eight-foot seams, we might listen to yer' " [TIME...
Almost as bad as the toothbrush of this parody, say Dentists Allen O. Gruebbel and J. M. Wisan, is the actual toothbrush used by the average U.S. family. Staff members of the American Dental Association, they examined 8,176 toothbrushes sent in* by 1,929 families all over the U.S., reported their findings last week in the A.D.A.'s Journal. Four out of five (80.7%) of the brushes were useless or actually "dangerous" (because they might irritate the gums); three-fourths of these had bent, broken or matted bristles; one-fourth were regarded as unsanitary...
...about to launch an educational program called "How to Speak Better English." As each girl talked to Grogan she received a sort of preliminary test. This week, the 15 worst (including one who said she suffered from "deplorably deficient fluency" and another who complained that "everything I say comes out horizontal") will compete at a final studio audition...
...psychology is frequently apparent. His prose is surprisingly matter of fact and informal for an acquired language, but it is nevertheless flat and lacks any quality of suspense. Americans are not likely to think of themselves as having worked for "the great chemical trust." They are not likely to say to a girl in the morning: "The night was in your face." They would not characterize a Nazi: "[He] belonged to the strata of activists." The characters have a constant consciousness of position, prestige and appearances that Americans do not generally feel; the book often seems an expression of German...