Useful Cantonese phrases. A collection of useful phrases in Cantonese, a variety of Chinese spoken in Hong Kong, Macau, southern China, and a number of other places, in traditional characters and Yale Romanization. Key to abbreviations: frm = formal, inf = informal. Click on any of the phrases that are links to hear them spoken.
John T. Scopes. John Thomas Scopes (1900-1970) was a substitute high school teacher who went on trial in Dayton, Tennessee, in 1925 for teaching evolution against State law. Chicago criminal lawyer Clarence Darrow unsuccessfully defended Scopes against the charge.
William Jennings Bryan is fanning himself in the Rhea County Courthouse in a Dayton, Tenn. during the Scopes monkey trial in July of 1925. Bryan appeared for the prosecution as a Bible expert in the trial of John T. Scopes, a biology teacher, who defied the Tennessee law banning the teaching of evolution.