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No Sound Of R.

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
September
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Hany langnages are devoid of cerfcain sounds quite familiar to us. The ChiDese, for instance, bas no sound equivalent to our "r. " For America a Chinaman says " Yamelika. " The Society islanders could not pronounce either "o." or "k, " and the nearest approach they could make to the name of the celebrated navigator Cook, who visited their shores, was "Tut."

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News