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Updated: June 26, 2025
Yet it never occurred to me that the wonderful and technically correct marines hanging on his walls were due to anything but the artist's conscientious study of his subject, and only his casual mispronounciation of the word "leeward," which landsmen pronounce as spelled, but which rolls off the tongue of a sailor, be he former dock rat or naval officer, as "looward," and his giving the long sounds to the vowels of the words "patent" and "tackle," that induced me to ask if he had ever been to sea.
'Yes; but for heaven's sake pronounce it with a V, and not a W, and in two syllables instead of three, Arthur answered, pettishly, his ear offended as it always was with a discordant sound or mispronounciation. 'Veesbaden, then, Frank repeated, understanding now why Jerry had stumbled over the name when he once spoke it to her.
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