Coleridge, the poet, related the following experience: “The other day I was what you call ‘floored’ hy a Jew. He passed me several- times, crying for old clothes in the most nasal and extraordinary tone I ever heard. At last, I was so provoked, that I said to him: ‘Pray, why can’t you say old clothes in a plain way, as I do now?’ The Jew stopped, and looking very gravely at me, said, ■in a clear and even fine accent: ‘Sir, I can say “old clothes” as well as . you can. But if you had to say so 10 times a minute, for an hour together, you would say “ogh clo” as X do now’— and off he marched. I was so confounded with the justice of this ' remark that I followed and gave him a shilling, the only one I had.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12751, 6 January 1936, Page 2
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