SCANDINAVIAN PROTEST
The Editor, "The Listener." Sir,-Being a semi-Scandinavian, I beg to lodge two protests on behalf of my fathers’ countries. One is against the persistent way in which one or two. of the announcers pronounce the word "Copenhagen." Spelt with a C it is an English word and should be pronounced in English. It is neither German .nor Danish. Spelt with a K, it is German. The Danish spelling is Kébenhavn (to rhyme with "down’’). ‘ My second protest is, I am afraid, not likely to have much result. But why must all Norwegian songs be sung in German? Even Kirsten Flagstad sings Grieg in German! If translations must be used, why not the English translations? I have several English editions of Scandinavian songs in Norwegian and English, but I am sure that most people would © prefer to hear them in their own languages. After all, those were the words to which the music was fitted by the composers. Yours, etc.,
Manurewa,
M.
J.
May 5, 1940.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 49, 31 May 1940, Page 12
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167SCANDINAVIAN PROTEST New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 49, 31 May 1940, Page 12
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