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Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 May 1914, Page 4

Hl^^l most oWSSg7 K ; "41iis •growing tendency to lity is- a feature of- Standsech which distinguishes fit alect,. • > : In dialects change tacfe unconsciously; in some lickly than ill others. The r speech in the novels of ? is, very different from ird now. Standard Speech 3 or less, consciously and :ully, taught r''in • our •it is preserved by strong nfluences. ; Its rate of is consequently »e still further reduced, if a rational spelling that sly represented the sounds, SUr teachers received a ihonetic training, which luable them to'check (leIfrom the standard which led unnoticed. tis no reason to assume ■ movement uniI will be checked; everylints the other way. Nor lirable; for a Standard n essential. mvanted for public speakI reasons that have y been I Of course, .this does not I dialect - poetry, drama, ■ ■ wanted for social inter- ( ■ li><ny have been handiIn their career through j ■anled for teaching. Good | U makes its greatest ap■ri ,it i» well read'aloud; ■fading aloud affords ■» a ■ only of the ( reader's apIn of the meaning and | V a passage, but of < the Kyle. • It is the. teacher's Bad aloud- well and to seI reading from his pupils. Buist render this possible j ■V'- " ;, y .making it 'clear ■?ti: "good English s ■and by 'helping him to Bd • the difficulties- >of his I £ believei that, - before Bry education, • authority Bge for what I. may call survey of its district. . Hs r Would -be embodied in Hndbook giving the main Hthe local pronunciation Hulary. This would be Htble aid to the teacher, Hi : stimulate his interest Hpeech. Occasionally ■ would be upon 'story in .dialect .after Hn standard speech prose woulc? be colsome time "would be in the English Kteraof English is not H these islands. In -Canada, m Soutli attention is be- ' PpoT:r-r. EnglisK, and J?nd< to the quests form of English snail ■ In the United States is also arousing wideand there too requires to be English language in. popularity of every nationwe are faced with : What is the best H)n of English? B.a generally accepted H speech also in order have a rational spelrational spelling, in may record and preSpeech. This stated by in the cohof his book on "The Pronounciation in which the follownever exist that infor whose appearlonging until the every English word ifs own pronouncithen the variamust continue to it will be relowest possible limand tough is must be travelled result could be language like ours and rejoices in the being the most barof any cultivated We are orthographic chaos of signs are the same sound of rounds by the race as a race lost the ' What can we of a tongue illustration, the e in let', representby ay in says, ei in heifer, and (also eo in, leopard, anfl. ,far W -turn) ?