THAT TROUBLESOME DIPHTHONG
Sir,-In your issue of May, Professor Arnold Wall says that the word "Mauve" is a French word which has resisted any tendency to anglicization, for we pronounce it as in French "Mohve." I have an English dictionary which is nearly 60 years old, and says the pronunciation is "Mawv." Prior to coming to New Zealand, I lived in England for over 40 years, and never once did I hear the word pronounced other than "Mawv." My dictionary says "Mauve" is a purple dye, a mallow colour. (French mauve, a mal-
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 103, 13 June 1941, Page 4
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