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Sir-Your correspondent "E.H." is extremely angry with the BBC announcers who say Mondee instead of Mondaye. He also claims to speak on behalf of "most listeners." As an Englishman, I am therefore at a _ disadvantage, since modesty reduces my claim to speak only on behalf of two persons. When his anger is abated, maybe he will inform The Listener how he has harvested such a consensus of opinign. In the meanwhile, not being able to boast of an "average education," I, too, must fall under his castigation, because in common with 40-odd millions in the United Kingdom, I also plead guilty to the unpardonable offence of saying Mondee. He "feels hotly" because a number of’ people refuse to adopt colonial speech which he terms English. His temperature would reach astronomical elevation if he resided in England. The spectacle of the New Zealand Babe with an evangelistic desire to teach Mother England how to speak her native tongue is almost worthy of
Punch:
ALBERT E.
YOUNG
(Roto-
rua).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 265, 21 July 1944, Page 5
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168PRONUNCIATION New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 265, 21 July 1944, Page 5
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