Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1889 — What’s in a Word? [ARTICLE]

What’s in a Word?

A New York pastor, wdio, though a Scotchman, had lived in America for over forty years, was one day taken to task by his daughter for the broadness of his accent in the pronunciation. of the word difference. “How do I pronounce it?” he asked. “You say ‘dufference.’ ” “And w r iiat do you say?” “Difference.” Looking at her for a moment, and getting her to repeat, he continued, “Well, M , will you just be so kind as to tell me Ihe dufference between dufference and dufference?” The daughter gave up her hopeless scholar to “gang his ain gait” in pronunciation henceforth. Harper’s Magazine. There may not be any such- thing as the elixir of life, but the youth thinks he has found something very near it when he kisses the girl he loves for the first time. Live by the day, even though you wort by tjie month. ' There are no tomorrows that you know of.