Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1895 — A Question of Pronunciation. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A Question of Pronunciation.

Americans who affect the so-called English pronunciation of the letter “a” in words like “ask,” “pass” and “last” are so much inclined, especially in Boston, to overdo the matter that it is well to reprint the testimony of a Baltimore traveler who took pains while in England this summer to observe critically the usage of cultivated speakers there on this point He found in effect that their “a” was a cross between the “a” of “ah” and the “a” of “at.” He listened carefully to the orthoepy of Lord Chief Justice Russell, Lord Rosebery, and Lord Salisbury and to that of the eminent churchmen, and found that nowhere “was there any such broad and deep pronunciation of words, and especially the letter ‘a,’ as we generally consider to be the English method.” Their pronunciation was almost identical with that of good speakers in Baltimore and New York.

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