[83] The organists Thunder and Rohr gave a concert in Philadelphia some years ago. In New York I have seen the names 'Stone and Flint,' and 'Lay and Hatch,' where the proper name takes precedence. [84] In the following inscription on a building, 'bei' instead of 'von' shows an English influence. The author knew English well: was a member of the state legislature, had a good collection of English--but not of German books--and yet preferred a German inscription-- ERBAUET BEI JOHN & MARIA HALDEMAN 1790. Inscriptions are commonly in the roman character, from the difficulty of cutting the others. [85] As in 'Chladori' for _Chladni_, in the American edition of the Westminster Review for July, 1865. The name Slyvons stands on the title-page as the author of a book on Chess (Bruxelles, 1856), which M. Cretaine in a similar work (Paris, 1865) gives as Solvyns. Upon calling Mr. C.'s attention to this point, he produced a letter from the former, signed _Solvyns_. [86] The forms of this name are Ferree, Ferrie, Fuehre, Ferie, Verre, Fiere, Firre, Ferry, Feire, Fire; and as 'Ferree' is now pronounced _Free_, this may be a form also. In the year 1861, when in Nassau, I observed that the English visitors pronounced the name of a building in four modes, one German and three not German--Bâdhaus, Bath-house, Bad-house, and Bawd-house. [87] Latin HIBRIDA. I have marked the first English syllable short to dissociate it from the _high-breed_ of gardeners and florists, which 'hȳbrid' suggests. CHAPTER X. IMPERFECT ENGLISH. § 1. _Broken English._ Specimens of English as badly spoken by Germans who have an imperfect knowledge of it, are common enough, but they seldom give a proper idea of its nature. The uncertainty between sonant and surd is well known, but like the Cockney with _h_, it is a common mistake to suppose that the misapplication is universal,[88] for were this the case, the simple rule of reversal would set the speakers right in each case. It is true that the German confounds English _t_ and _d_, but he puts _t_ for _d_ more frequently than _d_ for _t_. In an advertisement cut from a newspaper at Schwalbach, Nassau, in 1862-- Ordres for complet Diners or simples portions is punctually attented to and send in town-- there seems to be a spoken reversal of _t_ and _d_, but I take 'send' to be an error of grammar, the pronunciation of the speaker being probably _attentet_, and _sent_. "Excuse my bad riding" (writing) is a perversion in speech. A German writes 'dacke' _take_, 'de' _the_, 'be' _be_, 'deere' _deer_, 'contra' _country_, and says:-- I am æbple [able] to accommodeted with any quantity of dis kins of Ruts [kinds of roots]. Plies tirectad to ... Sout Frond Stread ... nort america.