Perhaps here I may fitly offer an apology for the slang I use, but slang over here is getting painfully common. I should say that really offensive language is less frequent than in times gone by, but that pure slang is more common. When the public press is not trying to lament the invasion of Ameri-anson, helped by the cimemas—ail children understand Transatlantic terms—it concentrates on the London accent, which I am told is getting more troublesome to the innocent foreigner. You know the story of the man who, wishing to see what was happening in Idinburgh, rang up a friend and asked him to revommtnd a "Scotch byyer" and, to his great annoyance, was referred to a musicians' agency.
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