NURSE RECOVERS HER LOST ACCENT
Sister Daisy Barker, Newcastle nurse, who began .speaking in broad Yorkshire after her tonsils. Avere removed last January,, j.s starting to regain her Australian accent. He speech lias: changed to Yorkshire dialect and back three times in her life, although she was born iii .Newcastle and has never been out ■oi' Australia. On each occasion her Australian acccnt returned within a year. The result is rather bewildering. Sister Barker sometimes begins a sentence in broad Yorkshire one) -<mds it in Australian. Sometimes she starts with Australian and ends in Yorkshire. Occasionally a piece of Australian comes between a Yorkshire start --and finish.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 13, 8 October 1943, Page 5
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107NURSE RECOVERS HER LOST ACCENT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 13, 8 October 1943, Page 5
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