NEW ZEALAND PRONUNCIATION
Sir-I should like to endorse emphatically all that your correspondent H. M. Bracken has to say on the subject of New Zealanders’ speech. There is only one word to describe its intona-tion-the painful word "uneducated." As (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) to pront tion, what hope is there for those onthe ‘lower range of the ‘educational ladder when those at the top make use of such words as "liberies" (anglicé libraries")? These things constitute a hurdle which, as he says, members of the younger generation should not be asked to negotiate. They go Home to mix with people whose educational equals they naturally consider themselves to be and in the majority of cases their speech inevitably leads to their being written down (possibly written off). as
inferior.
CRITIC
(Dunedin).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 380, 4 October 1946, Page 28
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