---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 18
number: 10
published: 1915-08
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Enunciation," *Improvement Era* 18, no. 10 (August 1915): 938–939.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera18010unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera18010unse
start_page: 938
end_page: 939
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1915-08)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera18010unse
  publication_year: 1915
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1915, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Enunciation

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Enunciation!

      Some wag, thinking of the M. I. A. contest requirements in public
speaking, music and story-telling, has submitted the following to the
Era as he says, "without rates." He evidently considers that there
is still great need of "enunciation" as a point of judgment in our

contests.   He titles his contribution thus. "Whut Langwidge Iz
Zis?"

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'"Lo, Bill."
    '"Lo, Steve."
    "Where yuh goin'?"
    "Home."
    I'Whuffor?"
    "T' eat supper."
    "Cummmin' t' Muchool t'night?"
    "Uh-huh."
    "Goin'   int' th'   public speakin' contest agin?"
    "Uh-huh."
    "Did'n' win out th' las' time, diclja?"
    "Huh-uh."
    "Whazzamatter ?",
    "Aw, those judges said my enunciashun wuzzn't up t' standard.
    "Aw, they're crazy, Bill."
    '"Swut I think, too.      Well, s'long, Steve."
    "S'long, Bill."

    Elders of the Liverpool Conference, British Mission, Jan.      1,   1915:
Back row, left to right: George H. Cook, Milo, Ben F. Hulme, Bloom-
ington, Idaho; Clifford Gerrard, Taylorsville (Nottingham conference),
Harold S. Lambert, Kamas, William C. Whvte, Holliday, Clarence J.
Woods, Provo, J, Earl Bent, Salt Lake City, Lester C. Pocock, Tooele,
J. Ensign Riggs, Kanab, Raymond S. Knight, Salt Lake City, Alfred J.

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Theurer, Providence, Utah. Second row: Vern C. Woolley, Grantsville,
C. LeRoy Madsen, Salt Lake City (conference clerk), Oscar J. Hendry,
Wellsville, Aubrey O. Andelin, Provo, Utah (outgoing conference pres-
ident); Niels J. Anderson, Cardston, Alberta, Canada; Lafayette Giles,
Heber City. Front row: Walter J. Cannon, St. George, Seymour E.
Christensen, Ephraim, Utah; Cleveland Curtis, Thatcher, Arizona; A.
Hulme Nebeker, Logan (incoming conference president); Thomas Pe-
terson, Preston, Idaho.