SINCE the little affair of the grounding of the Ark, life has been rather quiet on and around Mount Ararat. Of late, however, there have been exciting goings-on in that region, duo to the annoyance of the Kurds with the modern Turks! new-
Wireless Pronunciations In is interesting to notice from the new list of "recommended" pronunciations of the B.B.C. that there is nothing static about "English as she is spoke" at Savoy Hill; moves there, as it moves elsewhere. "Decadence" is now, after all, to have its accent on the first syllable, and "decadence" is banished—so that what the O.E.D, describes as the usage "now considered more scholarly" triumphs over the more pronunciation that was at marks any change, one would like to know what it is.' Do some people want to sound the "t," as others insist on doing in the case of "often" (though never, so far as one knows, in the case of soften")? If s0, perhaps there ought to be a warning against modernists, who are inclined to bus-t-lo in and out of ancient cas-ties. On- the sub-
Ject of the soldier's "reveille" the BBC. finds a division of opinion between "royally" and "revelly," but (very wisely as it will seem to many) decides for "revelly" for the time being. But why bother with the assurance that Mr. Robert Graves rhymes it with Gemelli,'" when Mr. Rudyard Kipling has supplied us with the immortal lines angled notions about correct. wear and. whiskerings for the male sex. Declaring that they wore obeying the commands of Allah, the Kurds captured a large number of Turks, cut off the visors of their caps and the brims of their hats, and said:¢ 'There you are, wearing the fez again as you used to!" They also: sequestrated their prisoners' safety razors, threatening: dire punishment for whiskerless captures in future. Allah, they explained, wants shaving in the Ararat area, But it is interesting to note that the ras themselves were taking no risks with anti entry in one direction they equipped themselves with the most modern rifles before. riding: down on the Turks, instead of bows fand arrows or chunks of Babylonian brick. Presumably "Allsh is. deem~ ed to tam a blind eye to thisesort fof modernist backsliding among the Faithful, The Flying Lobster Srnctat Indian delicacies for delegates to the Round-Table Confer-nce were forvatded from India by Seroplane, and it was also mention-that "afew days ago live lobsters were sent to Egypt by the Indian Air Mal Service" Thus do the Sources of one generation de the fantasies of its, predecessors for when the safiists of the Sacobin® framed the inguiry My name is O'Kelly, I've heard the Revelly From Birr to Bareilly, from Leeds to A Query?
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