Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1889 — What’s in a Word. [ARTICLE]

What’s in a Word.

Harper*a Magazine. A New York pastor who, though a Scotch man, had lived in America over forty years, was one day taken to task by his daughter for the broadness of his accent in the pronunciation of the word difference. “How do I pronounce it?" he asked. “You say ‘dufference.’ ” “And what do you say?” “Difference." Looking at her for a moment, and getting her to repeat, he continued: “Well, now, M —, will you just be so kind as to tell me the dufference between dufference and dufference?” -— — —+ — t —* The daughter gave up her hopeless scholar to “gang his ain gait” in pronunciation henceforth. We can easily see why a powder like Dr. Prioe’s Cream Baking Powder is so well appreciated by a nation of housekeepers. All the articles used in its composition are in the exact proportion necessary to produco a perfect chemical reaction, so that the oven heat liberates all the available gas, which produces such excellent effects.