Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1898 — Cubans Learning English. [ARTICLE]

Cubans Learning English.

In Havana ’now many people are wrestling with English. Formerly the Walters said “All right” to every complaint; latterly they have learned to ask, “What’s wrong, sir?” Cab drivers are picking up the language of the conquerors. But they ask “To where?” instead of “Where to?” and sometimes they put IL “Which where?”