BROADCAST ENGLISE
Sir.-John Doe and Richard Roe have started an argument about English and how it should be pronounced over the air. I am sure there are a good many listeners like myself who do not listen for mistakes in English or in grammar, but who like to hear announcers just speak as New Zealanders. A young nation will find a language of its own-sooner or later, and the vowels and accents will very likely change to suit. There may be a little slang as well. I like to hear the Irish brogue, the Scotch with their "Do ye no ken?" or the Welshmen who will "say it with music." I think the intonation of their
voice almost as good as a Maori orator’s. —
R.
WILSON
(Westport).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 95, 18 April 1941, Page 4
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127BROADCAST ENGLISE New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 95, 18 April 1941, Page 4
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