Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1901 — England as She is Preverted. [ARTICLE]

England as She is Preverted.

The boast of Americans has been that, no matter where you may go in any part of the United States, there is very little difficulty in understanding the dialect. Oregon may talk with Florida, or Maine with Arizona, without the confusion That arises in the various counties in England. But if a New York woman is to be believed, a new language is springing up in the metropolis which promises to develop the worst phases of Anglomania. When she answered a summons to the front door, she encountered a small boy who briefly remarked that he had come for "de foyndish.” “The what?” “De foyndish.” “Well,” she said, in desperation, “I don’t know what you want, but I am quite sure I haven’t got it. Who sent you?” “De ftogst. De flogst sent me fur de foyndish.” This did not mend matters, and the boy was going down the steps when a light suddenly burst upon the woman’s mind, and she remembered that she had asked the florist to send for her fern (tysh. The boy was recalled, the dish Avas brought, and the amenities were restored-