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Chapter VII: Schoolboys' Blunders

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Cleverness of these blunders-- Etymological guesses--_English as she is Taught_--Scriptural confusions-- Musical blunders--History and geography-- How to question--Professor Oliver Lodge's specimens of answers to examination papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157

CHAPTER VIII.

FOREIGNERS ENGLISH.

Exhibition English--French Work on the Societies of the World--Hotel keepers' English--Barcelona Exhibition--Paris Exhibition of 1889--How to learn English-- Foreign Guides in so called English --Addition to God save the King-- Shenstone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .188

INDEX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .215

LITERARY BLUNDERS.

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