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Sir-H. M. Bracken says that "accent" is invariably mispronounced "ack-sent." In passing, does it not appear that, if the word is invariably mispronounced, we are all out of step but our Jack?. But are we? The only two dictionaries I have at home at the moment are Ogilvie and Annandale’s (which has served me as a working dictionary for fifty years) and Webster’s International, Both give the pronounciation of the word referred to as "ak-sent." Mr. Bracken did not give the correct pronunciation, but to my untutored ear "ack" and "ak" seem to be undistinguish-
able in sound.
A. H.
REED
(Dunedin),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 369, 19 July 1946, Page 5
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