Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1917 — Our Difficult Language. [ARTICLE]

Our Difficult Language.

Apropos of the difficulties that pur foreign-born friends experience in learning “United States,” a subscriber writes: “A boy born a Dane and raised in a German family came to me and said: ‘Will you borrow me your wheelbarrow?’ and when be saw me smile he said, ‘I mean, can I lend it from • you?’ ” —Outlook. • 1