TAX FOR THE USE OF FOREIGN WORDS
PATRIOT MUSSOLINI PROTECTS PURITY OF ITALIAN TONGUE Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright ROME, Tuesday. The Prime Minister, Signor Mussolini, in Ws capacity as the Minister of Marine, has forbidden the Italian naval wireless services to use foreign words and technical expressions, including English words like "buzzer,” "tuning” and "fading.'' These must In future be supplanted by Italian words. For some time there has bepn a tax tor foreign words used in the streets on display signs. Even an hotel must he called a name like the Albergo. The proprietors will be taxed if a ioreign name is used. —Sun.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 89, 6 July 1927, Page 1
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