To the Ealitor of the "Nonmit-Cuina Dany News"
Sim—Mr. Herrz Ko is perfectly correct in saying that an "intrusive 2" is very commonly heard after words ending with a vowel (when the following word begins with a vowel), My father was a purist and extreme-strict about pronunciation and construction, and his children. grew up with very sensitive ears "in. this respect. The Importance of avoiding the "intrusive was impressed on Us from earliest childhood. Perhaps for that reason we are quicker to detect than most people, but it is on doubted fact that avery great num ver of English people—educated People s wel! as the illiterate—do say "idea-r of", "the sofaer {would not say that the "tilled", but it Is distinctly audible.)
think that the people who com this error are quite unconscious of it and would probably deny it if accused out.
That uneducated people commonly sound. this recognized by writers. "Compton Mackenzie, in his "East Wind of Love" (which I hap-en to be reading at the moment), frequently inserts it in speech coming from the lips of English servants, ete, We had a London charwoman
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