ANNOUNCERS’ VOICES
The Editor, + The Listener" Sir,-Relative to the letter of "Circumflex" in your issue’ of April 12, I entirely disagree with his adverse comment about the YA announcers. I consider that, in the main, they are good, especially the chief announcers, who have all well-modulated voices, good accents and, generally speaking, good (and correct) pronunciations. I have heard several people comment favourably. I do not know any of them, even by name, so cannot be accused of partisanship, but it is but fair to defend those whose positions make it impossible for them to defend themselves. It seems obvious that if the YA announcers are so distasteful to "Circumflex" he should not listen to them. To my mind it is a question of what one has been accustomed to-one could hardly expect a person brought up on beer to appreciate champagne. Perhaps " Circumflex" would have the announcer of " Boogy-boogy-boo" change his accent for the occasion to Cockney or Yankee, Personally, I can see no merit whatever in this correspondent’s complaints, but I realise that there are always people anxious to work off a grouch even if that grouch emanates from a disordered liver. As to the YA announcers imitating some of the virtues of the NCBS-what are those virtues? Yours, etc.,
F. C.
BECKETT.
Auckland, April 13, 1940.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 44, 26 April 1940, Page 34
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