GON TO AYE
Sir-Your two correspondents certainly give good reason for the use of the English pronunciation of GENT and AKES, but why has no one taken the Victorian principal to task for her French pronunciation of GON to AYE? I submit GONG to ACE as a nearer approach to the French. GONG is certainly far from perfect but ACE is very nearlv so.
H. C.
DREAVER
(Dunedin).
Sir,-It has evidently not occurred to anyone to inquire a little closer into the language question in Belgium. As can be seen by such a simple thing as glancing at a Belgian postage stamp, there are two languages used in that country -Flemish and Walloon. ° Ghent is Flemish, being pronounced to rhyme with consent, and Gand is Walloon, rhyming best with fawn, but the vowel being pronounced with a slightly more open mouth.
R.
SPENCE
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 439, 21 November 1947, Page 15
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144GON TO AYE New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 439, 21 November 1947, Page 15
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