ieee, Meet ot Sir,-With all deference to the Professor of English at the University of Oxford it would be interesting to know which public school he is going to take as a standard for English. Because it is only necessary to listen to a conversation between, say, an Etonian and a Harrovian to realise that the difference in accent (I nearly wrote dialect) is distinctly’ perceptible. Both accent and delivery as a matter of fact could be easily distinguished without even a glance at the respective hats, waistcoat buttons and ties of the wearers, Apparently it is not Standard English that we are after but a Standard Accent. Well, why? There are millions of people who speak reasonably grammatical and entirely accentless English, and this, I take it, whether "standard" or nat, is the best.
P. H. D.
MORANT
(Greymouth),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 276, 6 October 1944, Page 5
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