Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1917 — Our Difficult Language. [ARTICLE]

Our Difficult Language.

Apropos of the difficulties that our 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 he saw me smile he said, T mean, can I lend it from you?’”—Outlook.