Sir-Your correspondent John W. Price is wrong about the pronunciation of Marlborough. The correct pronunciation is Mawlborough, which has always been used by the dukes of that name. Now I suppose we shall be having one of your readers inform us that Derby should be Durby. I have heard many New Zealanders pronounce Berwick "Burwick," but I suppose that does not make it correct. Over the whole of England I have heard Yarmouth called nothing but Yarmuth, accenting the first syllable. It has nothing whatever to do with dialect.
ENGLISH
(Christchurch).
Sir.-"Homey" is quite right about the pronunciation of Yarmouth, which with many other places such as Dartmouth, Plymouth, Falmouth, etc., have the accent on the first syllable and mouth rhymes with "doth" and is so slightly accented that "mth" could easily describe it. "Argosy’s" letter is quite beside the point. No doubt he may promounce Yar "Ye-ar" but throughout England it is "Yahr-muth."
SEER
(Wairoa),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 337, 7 December 1945, Page 25
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