"BEAUTIFUL SPEECH!"
THE NEW ZEALAND ACCENT. "You New Zealanders are developing a beautiful form of speech!" That surprising bouquet was one of many compliments paid by the new minister of Knox Church, the Rev. T. W. Armour, to the Dominion, iu an last night. Sir Armour is capable of judging, for he i s a from Inverness where, it is claimed, the purest English language in the British Isles is spoken. "There is no mangling of tne vowels and consonants and no dialect a3 far as X can see" he continued from one end of the to the other. You seem to liave pure English It is unconscious and it- is beautiful." Even Scotchmen who have here for 20 years or so, have acquired the New Zealand speech."
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18239, 25 November 1924, Page 8
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