WINDSOR CASSEL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 109, 22 April 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)

WINDSOR CASSEL.

Sir Ernest Cassel was one of the late hmg Edward’s greatest friends, and ho was so often a visitor at Windsor Castle °l his friends nicknamed him Windsor Cassel.” King Eelward camo to hear of this nickname in a rather esmus way

A very well-known peer was strollin'* about the Royal gardens at Windsor when. :>s hi l thought, he saw Sir Ernest seated on a chair with his hack towards him. enjoying a cigar. Coing up to him on t'p-toe. he suddenly gave him a resounding whack on the shoulder. ‘‘Hulio. old Windsor Cassel!” he c’ied. "flow are von?”

The occupant of the chair swuno tonnd in astoni-liment, and th? noble? a.nn’s l-orror nny be imagined when n ■ dis -ov*>red that the man whose shmdder he had whacked was King Eduard hims If. who naturally thought that the phrase i><”d was "'Windsor Cast’e.” and appli d to him. His Maji'-ty a.s very annoyed al the apparent impertinence, and Sir Ernest Cassel himsi-’f had to explain things before the culprit was forgiven.

THE LANGUAGES OF BRITAIN. Ha* nnvboly ever reckoned how manv L.ngunges are snoken in the British Js’es? Fo r poo-J<> would put the numler as high n* seven. But take a census thus: English. Wcl-h in Wales. Erse in Indand. Manx in t!ie Isle of Man (church services in Manx were discontinued then- but recently). Gaelic in Scotland French in the Channel Islands while Cornish was spoken in Cornwall far more re-ently than either historians or the public know. The total is seven languages for the British Isles —and vet we are the poorest linguists in the world.