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The Editor, "The Listener." Sir,-It is rather hard that the English language as spoken by any well educated person in England should come in for so much adverse criticism. The language as pronounced by the BBC announcers is neither affected nor unusual but clear King’s English spoken to carry well over the wireless. If people in the Dominions prefer their own rendering of the language they have a perfect right to do so, but in fairness let them remember that it is a corruption of pure English speech. Yours, etc.,
VISITOR
Geraldine, May 19, 1940.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 49, 31 May 1940, Page 12
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97ANNOUNCERS' VOICES New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 49, 31 May 1940, Page 12
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