Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1904 — How To Pronounce Automobile. [ARTICLE]

How To Pronounce Automobile.

The proper n me of those new tangled machines of locomotion, often called devil-wagons, and where they are numerous and reckless, with several hard words preceding the devil, is too recent to be found in any but the latest dictionaries and there is considerable diversity of usage, in its pronounciation. Those who are inclined to “put on ccnsiderab’e dog’’ give it the Frencby twist, as far as they can and say autymobeel, poshing extra hard on the •*b3el”and paying's s little attention as possible to the other three sy 11 tables On the other hand the plainer people, stick to the common rules of anglo saxon analogy, and say ‘’auty-mow-beel,’’ with the accent on the “mow’’ but also bringing the beel out clear and plain. This method is nearer right than the Frenchy twist, but is still not strictly in line with the pronounciation given in the supplement of Websters late st dictionary. There the word is pronounced auto-mow-bil, with the accent all on the mow, and with the beel chiseled down to plain bill, and not very plain at that.