SAYING IT IN ENGLISH

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 December 1940, Page 2

SAYING IT IN ENGLISH

MIGRANT CHILDREN’S SPEECH. Do we realise that our British guests have never been in a drugstore or hardware in their lives; but only in a chemist’s shop or an ironmonger’s? That they have never bought a can of tomaytoes, but just a tin of tomahtoes? That their mothers do not wear suits or dresses but always costumes and frocks? That boots are quite different from shoes? That they have never listened to a program on the radio but always on the wireless? That they have gone to the cinema far less often than our children have been to the movies; that they go "to the pictures, not to a show? That they may have come from very good homes and yet not be accustomed to the telephone to nearly the same extent as Canadian children? That only a few of them will have had a motorcar, for petrol is dear in England, and so are licenses and everything connected with an automobile? That they will never have ridden in a street car, but always in a tram, and that tram a double-decker?' That they will look eagerly for the postman not the mailman, and by the same token, post their letters not mail them?—The Alberta Teachers’ Association Magazine.