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.
John Scopes arrived for the trial wearing a blue shirt and a hand-painted bow tie. He sat in the front row near John Washington Butlerâwho wrote the Butler Act under which Scopes was being tried. At 9.22 a.m., Judge Raulston called the case of State of Tennessee vs. John Thomas Scopes.