A STUDY IN PRONUNCIATION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2224, 9 October 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

A STUDY IN PRONUNCIATION.

The following composition of words in common use will afford much entertainment if road aloud by several, as a test of ability to read it correctly. Hardly one in a hundred cau get through it successfully without previous study : —'Comely Diana had a voice -like a calliope; yet, although it was not enervated by laryn gitis, aho was not a virago. Sha wore a stomacher set wifi jewels that gave an interesting idea of her f.tther's finances. There was no mju ilor in their vicinnge She sought to inveigle hor charity coadjutor into a hymeneal association without tedious delay. , She scut him her minia ture, a jessamine flower and an invitation 10 a dinner of anchovies. He was coadjtitaut in the church. He had a cada-veroua-like complexion, and in a joust he had been houghed. Taking some almonds as a b:idal gift, he mounted a dromedary with tho epizootic and hastened, without disgresMon, along Pail Mall. The guests were sitting on a divan, with no prescience of evil. Tho diocesan was waiting, having finished an obsolntory service. When suddenly, above the clangour of the wedding bells, was heard a maniacal shriek. The groom had pierced his carotid arteries with a carbine on hearing that a deficit in bin church collections had been discovered. He was cremated.' — Boston Transcript.