TASKS IN PRONUNCIATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 56, 20 October 1911, Page 8

TASKS IN PRONUNCIATION.

Difficult, if not despairing, tasks in pronunciation are occasionally imposed upon local shipping folk by visiting vessels with extraordinary names (says the “Argus”). Not long ago K tough problem in this respect, was furnished by the Norwegian ship Hafrsfjord, which people made vain and laughable efforts to solve, finally overcoming their difficulty by calling the vessel by the name of General Roberts, which she bore before changing her nationality. No such “escape.” however, was vouchsafed in regard to the steamer Bjorustjerno Bjornson, which arrived in Melbourne recently, this being the only name she was over k"owu by. As shipping people declined even to attempt pronouncing this name nothing remained but to bestow upon her some peculiar title as a mi’istituto for use while slie was in port here, ft- a discussion which ensued on the subject among wharf habitues, tiie suggestion that she was a “Houser” found general approval, and it was agreed that for ordinary purposes the now arrival should ho known I>y that name.