Lingo

A correspondent in a morning paper complains bitterly of the “in- desirable intonation” taught to children in some schools, and quotes a verse of Tennyson, as taught, to illustrate his grievance.

As Tennyson wrote it:
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
    The flying cloud, the frosty light.
    The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

As the correspondent says it is taught in schools:
Ring ote, waild bells, to the waild skaye,
    The flaying clode, the frosty laight.
    The yeah is daying in the naight.
Ring ote, waild bells, and let him daye.

The Dinkum Aussie of it:
Ring eout, woild bells, to the woild skoy,
    The floyin’ cleoud, the frosty loight,
    The year is doyin’ in the noight,
Ring eout, woild bells, an’ let ’im doy.