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Grip, the Rat is a story packed with words pronounced differently in different localities. It begins: "Once there [thar, theah] was a young rat [ret, rate] who couldn't make [mek, mack] up his mind. Whenever the other [udder, othah] rats asked [eskt, ast] him if he would like [lake, lack] to come out [oat, aout] with them [dem], he would answer [enser, ahnser], 'I don't know [ah doan-no, I dunno],' and when they said, 'Would you [wouldja] like to stop [stawp] at home [hum, hown]?' he wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Words & Woids | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

...same issue, describing the "Anti-Tammany Cow," your repeated incorrect use of "udders," indicating the cow's teats, will amuse farm-raised TiME-readers-perhaps a more numerous section than you suspect. For the benefit of TIME'S editors: a cow has but one udder, the gland which secretes milk. The appendages on each quarter, from which the milk is drawn, are correctly known as teats- inelegantly but rather universally pronounced "tits," Mr. Webster to the contrary notwithstanding. I hope no newborn delicacy prompted TIME'S lapse from the correct biological description...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 16, 1931 | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...lemme loose, I'll knock you agin,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, en wid dat he fotch 'er a wipe wid de udder han, en dat stuck. Tar-Baby, she ain't sayin' nothin', en Brer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Suits | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...Angeles' 294 public elementary schools. They had been gazed at, petted by some 2,000 school children daily. Their guardian, one Jay Dutter, member of the California Dairy Council, had lectured about them, fed them, demonstrated the uses of such typical bovine features as the udder.* Sponsor of this tour was Mrs. Etta Louise Ross, assistant director of the nature study department of Los Angeles high schools. She and Director Charles Lincoln Edwards thought that something should be done to acquaint the children with this useful animal. They enlisted Dairyman Dutter. He discovered that 50% of the children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mmes Guernsey & Jersey | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

...Cinemaddict Los Angeles school children might already have been udder-conscious after viewing the capacious, undulant udder of the cow in Mickey Mouse films. These were banned last fortnight by Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mmes Guernsey & Jersey | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

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