Sir,-May I ‘also endorse your correspondent’s comments on the pronunciation we are daily hearing on the air. Starting with the school session which is presumably run by specially educated, people. A perfectly charming voice greets you, "Good-morning, everybuddy." Then later, an elderly man’s voice says, "Goodmorning byes and gurls." This is followed later by a lady who has no I’s in her vocabulary. Things are nace and quate, etc. None of this can have a good effect on listening and learning children. Then on a recent Saturday during a special broadcast of the weather report a voice spoke of Teranaki, and Mawlborough. Are these speakers trying to improve our language or are they just trying to overcome their own inferiority
complex?
H.
ALEXANDER
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 369, 19 July 1946, Page 5
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