People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1894 — Pronunciation. [ARTICLE]

Pronunciation.

Good old Deacon Thayer, who was school trustee in the town of Mendon, Mass., once said, when addressing the village school: “A correct pronunciation is of the utmost importance in this world and the world to come. But how many people have it? We heard three words mispronounced the other day bv persons of far more than ordinary culture, and the errors arc all common ones. Before ‘desuetude’ was dragged from its own desuetude by the president, few persons pronounced it correctly. Very many persons habitually rhyme ‘squalor’ with holler, and hardly anybody pronounces ‘paresis’ correctly.”—Boston Gazette.