Queer Pronunciation

AViicn Kki.ií Qeorge i'. addresed the corpoi-atiou of Ixjiidon once a year lie filways refen-ed to it as "My loyal city oí Luimen." At QlBt lime, ilso, the artetocratíc pronunciation of "St. James," "gold" and ■Home," was "8t, Jeaxmw," "gooid" and "Room." The latte ktogiered on certalnly nntll the iüiddic of tbie century, ajnoog the upper tlwpusaml. wiitJl whom alBO a "cSiarilot" was a "oharrot." "Obleqge" wea yery commoo 40 yeaw ago, is tb Frrikh pcezootamaw for pi-csfiii:iii'iit, anii man] otib&r pronun ■iatMnis ïKiw qult gone . it t oí use. My oíd rector, Jultae Chartee Hare, wouidsay "Obteege me bj [ki-;hh the (eowcntttbw," wSulle Criend Walter SavagB Laador, alwaye called "Iliaca" ■];iM'i ks," and "v.lolotw" "vilets." I cao weU ramember oo Advent Bunday, L825, betag startu-.i by beacteg the inimt-ter in St. Mar.v AVoolnoth.'8 Umrch, ,by the Mant-ioii house, gVvd (out sonorously "as a lodge iai a garÜan ot oowcumbers." "Picter" for "picture" wae not, 50 yoars eince, a mark of want of education, as it would bo jiow, wluilo tJie oíd pronuncia tdon "6hJoro" for "sewer" was quite mon.-