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Updated: June 23, 2025
After laughing three hours a propos de rien, it is time to be serious out of place. I will tell you what they did laugh at, though. Miss Malcolm sang a song with a title I dare not attempt. There were two lines in it which I am going to mispronounce; but you are not Scotch, so I don't care for you, uncle, darling.
To address beings by their intimate first names, beings of the opposite sex especially, was a miniature sacrament; and the story of that premature audacity of Elsa with Lohengrin never failed to touch his sense of awe. "What's in a name?" for him, was a significant question a question of life or death. For to mispronounce a name was a bad blunder, but to name it wrongly was to miss it altogether.
Hans had a neighbor, a very bad man, whose name was Carl. When he saw how rich Hans was getting to be, he became very enverous." "Very what?" "Enverous. He didn't like it, you know." "Don't you mean envious?" said Molly Prime. "Yes, didn't I say so? Mother says I mispronounce awfully, and it's because I read so much to myself. I meant enver envious, of course.
When they leave school they can read, write, add, subtract, divide, and multiply after a fashion; they can mispronounce a few French words, without being able to construct a single grammatical sentence or understand a syllable that is said to them; they know enough shorthand to write down simple words at one half the speed of ordinary handwriting; and they have acquired by rote a few dry facts from history and geography, all of which will be totally obliterated from their memories within a space of twelve months.
You you're English?" "Yes." "I thought so. I could tell it by the way you mispronounce the words that's got a's in them, you know; such as saying loff when you mean laff but you'll get over that. He's a right down good fellow, and a little sociable with the photographer's boy and the caulker and the blacksmith that work in the navy yard, but not so much with the others.
Good reading aloud is almost a lost accomplishment now. It is little thought of in the schools. It is disused at home. It is rare to find any one who can read, even from the newspaper, well. Reading is so universal, even with the uncultivated, that it is common to hear people mispronounce words that you did not suppose they had ever seen.
And then the Jesuit fathers, half-tramp, half-martyr, they were great old fellows." "And the Frenchman where is he?" said Madeline. "Gone, and left a few names for the Swede and the American to mispronounce; but you may come down later, Mr. Norris, and find how law and order, in our own people, fought with savagery out here on the frontier. It's a thrilling story."
"My dear old man," said Stuart, reproachfully. "Of course I am. I've had my seats for the last three weeks. Do you suppose I could miss hearing you mispronounce all the Hindostanee I've taught you?" "Well, good-night then," said the actor, waving his hand to his friends as he moved away. "'We, who are about to die, salute you!" "Good luck to you," said Sloane, holding up his glass.
"My dear old man," said Stuart, reproachfully, "of course I am. I've had my seats for the last three weeks. Do you suppose I could miss hearing you mispronounce all the Hindostanee I've taught you?" "Well, good-night then," said the actor, waving his hand to his friends as he moved away. "'We, who are about to die, salute you!" "Good luck to you," said Sloane, holding up his glass.
His interest never flagged. He would hear the same word twenty times with profound refreshment, mispronounce it in several different ways, and forget it again with magical celerity. Say it happened to be stirrup. "No, I don't seem to remember that word, Mr. Anne," he would say: "it don't seem to stick to me, that word don't." And then, when I had told it him again, "Étrier!" he would cry.
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