NEW ZEALAND SPEECH
Sir-J.S.L. (Upper Hutt) refers to complaints about the bad English heard over the air, and suggests that "it is time these people realise that English is not spoken in New Zealand." It seems to me that the way the educated New Zealanders speak is far more restful to listen to than what J.S.L. calls "New Zealand’s’ own idiom and pronunciation." I would quote a few lines from the now famous poem of Alice Duer Miller’s The White Cliffs: ; Oh English voices, are there any words Those tones to tell, those cadences to teach! . As song of thrushes is to other birds So English voices are to other speech Those pure round "o’s"’-those lovely liquid "I's" ’ Ring in the ears like sound of sabbath bells.
ARUNDEL
(Wanganui).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 265, 21 July 1944, Page 5
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129NEW ZEALAND SPEECH New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 265, 21 July 1944, Page 5
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