chaptar

Updated: May 28, 2025

Barrett had then the peculiarity in his manner of sounding certain vowels, which he still retains always pronouncing the word "turn," for instance, as if it were written "tarn." I remember hearing him once preach from the text, 1 Cor., iii., 23, which he announced as follows: "The farst book of Corinthians, the thard chaptar, and the twenty-thard varse."

Eliezer Edwards - Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men