The Archive · 1908

Greek and the Small Boy

January 30.

Iris little more than a year since the Headmasters of England brought their annual conference into unusual notoriety by a resolution to impose the so-called foreign pronunciation of Latin in all public schools. So that the British school boy now finds himself compelled to the indignity of mouthing " wa-nee, weeded, wee kee," for the more orthodox yeni, vich, vid; and to accept seriously that time-honoured subject of his ridicule "We kiss Vim (vicissim), by turns." At this distance from England there has been hardly time yet for the younger generation to come out or come

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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