RADIO PRONUNCIATION
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Standard for the Y.A. Announcers
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WELLINGTON, This Bay Stftudardisatibn of the pionuncxatioU of the announcers at the YA stations is now beibg achieved by the National Broadcasting serVice. lp this step the service followed on the lines of the British Broadcasting Corporation, Recently the N.B.S. invited Professor Arnold Wall. (4 Canterbury University College, a New Zeaiand authority on English, to tour the various YA stations and inqtxire into the mat ter of pronunciation He interviewed all the announcers, anj on the conclusion of his inquiries- be wrote a report in which he suggested a standard pronunciation for listed words. That is pow being ppplied on the stations concerned,,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 22, 19 October 1937, Page 4
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