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...newscast over Houston station KPRC in 1936, Commentator Frank Colby mentioned the Dionne "KWIN-tyoo-plits." Listeners barraged him with protests; they said that the correct pronunciation was kwin-TUH-plits or kwinTOO-plits. After Colby had cited Webster to prove that his pronunciation was preferred, he decided to start a column in the Houston Chronicle about words, their pronunciation and derivation. It was such a success that Colby settled down full-time to writing a daily column, "Take My Word for It," now syndicated in 600 newspapers...
...power. The climax of the company's program was a p'i-p'a solo, The Downfall of Chu, describing in great scalding floods of sound the gathering of armies, a wild battle, the grief and suicide. P'i-p'a Soloist Sung Yue-tuh took five curtain calls...
Alexander R (i) ves got news the other day that another of his Virginia Belles got married and R(i)ves said immediately, "Ah jus gotta get me some leave soon oah m' whole stable will be a-goin tuh the dawgs...
Scotty revealed that he plans to show up at the football rally tonight and "defle tuh o' the brawniest payers" to keep him tied up for more than three minutes...
...that had reached Manhattan by way of several west coast cities. Their play-acting was not up to Chinatown's level. But the music, delicately played on half-a-dozen unfamiliar exotic instruments, was as tangy and pungent as a 25-year-old egg. While Musician Sung Yue-tuh drew subtle wheezes from the sheng (4,639-year-old ancestor of the harmonica), and Wang Wen-piao sawed at his erh-hu (two-string fiddle), the audience took it politely. But when Professor Wei Chung-loh of China's Ta Tung National Research Institute swung...