Word: sinjoro
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Charles Thollet, a hardware dealer of Port-Lyautey, French Morocco, knows only a little English, but that did not bother him when he planned a trip through the U.S. He only looked up some addresses, and sent off a few letters beginning "Estimata Sinjoro." Last week the "Dear Sirs" of the U.S. were entertaining him and his wife royally. The language they used: Esperanto...
...Chicago, still another group showed them the stockyards ("Kiel multaj bestoj!"). Last week, back in Manhattan after a visit with California Esperantists and a few days in Washington, D.C., the Thollets happily pronounced the U.S. "pura, agrabla, kaj automata." But above all, they said, it is amika (friendly). Added Sinjoro Thollet to a reporter: "You ought to learn Esperanto. Only three months. Tiel facila...
...House on London's Oxford Street last week eyed their patrons carefully. If the customer was a day-to-day white-collar snack-snatcher, the nippy said, as usual: "Yes sir, your order please, sir." But if he was a bizarre, loosely clad foreigner, the nippy said: "Si Sinjoro, vian ordenon, mi petas, Sinjoro." In nearby University of London's University College, some 1,400 delegates of 40 nationalities were gathered in a Congress of the International Esperanto League, and Lyons Restaurants (the Childs chain of England) never miss a trick...
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