Our Expressive Slang

NZ Truth, Issue 1080, 12 August 1926, Page 4

Our Expressive Slang

| £NGLISH as she is "spoke" | | ... nowadays, m our police I | courts. The ethics^of drunken- I |: ness are beings discussed in'a I |, case at Christchurch, and it is i, |.-; all. a matter of degree. ■ | |;: "He was bleary,"- said ' one § ='■ constable of defendant. ■\ . = =■[. "What's that?" queried the | = ' magistrate. "Beery, did you i 1 say?" , , J = "No, sir, bleary." Then later: i |: "The defendant was dopey." I I The Bench: "Eh? I did not | 1, quite catch y~ou. Did you say I 1 ■ mopey?" •" r . | | "No, your v Worship, , dopey." J | and with a comprehending nod | | the magistrate did not further | I interrogate. - | i