“ Audience ” Claims Its Rightful Useage
TjZ7.Rjr.2VG' tico decades at least, witnesses of screen entertainment, almost invariably , have been misnamed “audience#” for any good dictionary makes it clear that an audience is “c body of listeners.” A new term is now needed to designate persons who see and hear sound and talking pictures. American journals propose to coin sVch terms as “audi - optience " and “optl-audiencealthough they consider that . optience, meaning a body of spectators, has remained buried in the dictionary over long.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 490, 20 October 1928, Page 23
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