NEW ZEALAND SPEECH
Sir-Right from your first issue various well intentioned writers have broken out with complaints of wrong pronunciation and bad English heard over the air. I suggest that it is time these people realised that English is not spoken in New Zealand. The language we speak is New Zealandese, with its own idiom and pronunciation, and this is just as distinctive as the language spoken by Americans, South Africans, Australians or Canadians. All the efforts of purists to persuade us to pronounce according to the Oxford Dictionary are doomed to failure. But their labours will’ bear fruit if they are concentrated en securing a standard pronunciation within the framework of the best New
Zealand practice
J.S.
L.
(Upper Hutt).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 260, 16 June 1944, Page 2
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121NEW ZEALAND SPEECH New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 260, 16 June 1944, Page 2
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