How Do You Pronounce St. Paul.
A olever New York girl, while sojourning in London, was invited to meet the Prince of Wales at breakfast with some other Americans. During breakfast the Prince rallied her countrymen good-huinouredly on the liberty taken by Americans in " clipping the Queen's English " — robbing words of letters io pronunciation. After they had risen from the table he found the shy little girl in a corner, and asked her kindly: — "What, in London, has most impressed you?" "Sinpul, jour Highnesi," was the timid reply. " Sinpul ? " eaid the puzzled Prince. "Oh, yes I There is nothing in the town SO wonderful to me." " I am afraid," he said, with a slight expression of annoyance, " that you know my London better than I. Sinpul? Isifc a theare, & cafe —what is it?" . "A church,., your Highness. We Americans call it Saint Paul ; but as you ball Staiob John Sinjun, tbis, it sestos, must be Sinpul." The Prince laughed heartily, and declared himself fairly worsted.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2231, 3 December 1896, Page 52
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165How Do You Pronounce St. Paul. Otago Witness, Issue 2231, 3 December 1896, Page 52
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