JOTTINGS.
It is annoying to meet continually a word which defies the tongue. Przemysl, in Galicia, which is. so much cabled about just now on account of its reported strength and the presence before it of the Russian armies, is a stumbling block to everybody whose tongue is not trained in acrobatics. To many people it suggested a combination of letters that might spell Chumley or Marshbanks, but it is neither. According to the pronouncing gazetter it is pronounced Pzhem-is-ll Now there should not be any difficulty about it.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 54, 20 October 1914, Page 6
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89JOTTINGS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 54, 20 October 1914, Page 6
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