The Massachusetts Spy, And Worcester County Advertiser

English Pronunciation. Most English works of merit appear in Germany in the original, or in translations. To translate English prose is very easy to the Germans, but they complain much of our pronunciation, which is, to them, a perfect chaos. It is incomprehensible to them that enough and though should not rhyme, and that enough and bluff should. The greatest difficulty, however, is the th of our language, which is harder for them than Shibboleth was for the Ephraimites. Mr. Dwight, in his Book of Travels, says he never met with but one German who could say, thirty three thousand things. With all their efforts, and after screwing and twisting their faces into all shapes, they can only bring forth dirty dree dousand dings.-Hampshire Gazette.