Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1902 — Philadelphia Pronunciation. [ARTICLE]

Philadelphia Pronunciation.

“It is becoming more and more common in Philadelphia,’’ says The Record of that city, “to give to words their English rather than their American pronunciation. When, some ten years ago, Professor Lamberton, coming to the University of Pennsylvania to teach Greek, pronounced clerk as though it were spelled ‘dark,’ people looked at one another and smiled, but nowadays the pronunciation is not uncommon. It is quite usual, too, to hear Berkeley pronounced in the English manner, ‘Barkley,’ and derby ‘darby,’ while the ultra-English are trying, with good promise of mccess, to make the prevailing pronunciation of patent ‘paytent,’ as it is in London.”