FATHER'S PRONUNCIATION.
TVhen father talks about the war, He doesn’t put on airs. He calls it Liege to rhyme with siege. The! French he never spares. Those foreign towns don’t bother him, He needs no clever book To help' him out, when he’s in doubt, He says ’em as they look. Though some may call Namur “Nahmopr,” It’s “Nam-er” plain to dad ; He doesn’t pose as one who knows Each foreign guttural fad. He doesn’t twist his tongue about To get ’em, hook or crook, The way they’re said, but plods ahead An’ reads ’em as they look. —Detroit Free Press.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 65, 12 November 1914, Page 6
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101FATHER'S PRONUNCIATION. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 65, 12 November 1914, Page 6
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