1 JULY 1916, Page 19

ENGLISH OR BRITISH?

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 hardly ever know an Englishman attempt to deal with things Scottish without making a blunder. Mr. Marston's example of how fine young officers of the Black Watch speak will amuse those gentlemen when they take up the Spectator in tho Now or University Club in Edinburgh. Scotsmen of education and refinement do not say " dom " for "damn "—if they give way to the temptation to uso the wor at all. Nor do they call " man " "won," or speak of "the likes o'" A Scottish accent and the mispronunciation of English worth; are two different things, and the former cannot be represented in print by the