Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1896 — Old Southern “Clark.” [ARTICLE]

Old Southern “Clark.”

The Speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives and the President of the Senate call the clerk “clark.” This excites surprise in strangers, but it is good old English ortheoepy of the Elizabethan era. This pronunciation is not often heard in cities nowadays, even in the South, where more of the old forms of speech linger than in the North, but it Is frequent enough in the Tennessee, Virginia, and Carolina mountain districts.