MISTRANSLATION LEADS TO ERROR.
jjy Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. •* Sydney Sun ” Cable. (Received November 29, 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, November 28 A phrase in the Public Orator’s Latin speech referring to Mr Coates’s boyhood was translated as “ cowboy,” thereby leading the papers to use the heading, From Cowboy to Prime Minister.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18016, 29 November 1926, Page 8
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