History of Bengali Language and Literature c11.31

c11.31

But we presume that it was his peculiarity of accent in pronouncing the letters ত, থ etc. which must have made his speech in some cases unintelligible to people. Reading his Bengali works on various subjects, one is struck with his wonderful command over the idioms and colloquial forms of our dialect so difficult for a foreigner to acquire. Dr. Carey was not, however, the man to be daunted by failures. He composed a short and simple marriage service in Bengali for meeting the growing demand of such formulæ, as there was already a good number of native Christians, whose marriage ceremonies were to be celebrated according to the new rites for which there was yet no guide in the vernacular. He besides composed songs in Bengali and we find one of his friends writing about himself and Dr.