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Evening Star, Issue 19779, 1 February 1928, Page 6

When a. bashful swain, referring to the unexpectedness of a proposal, recounts how he summoned up sufficient courage to “pop the question,” he is using a good old expression that, has come down from the Middle Ages. Modern usage includes the word “ pop ” applied in such a sense as a slang expression, but the word has always meant suddenness. As applied to the pop of a cork, we have the same root meaning to the word, and in every sense, then, to° “ pop the question ” is applicable to a proposal which, is supposed to be caused by the sudden explosion of pent-up emotions. Since the inception of the Atlantic telephone to November 8 there were 834 calls to Great Britain of an average duration of four and a-half minutes, compared with 924 calls to the United States of an average duration of 5 3-5 minutes. The myth of American volubility and British reticence is thus apparently shattered,