"THE NEW ZEALAND VOICE"
Sir,-Into the maelstrom of controversy that will no doubt develop from your publication of Mr. Andrew Morrison’s entertaining broadcast on the "New Zealand Voice," may I toss the following: One thing that has charmed me particularly during my tour of the Dominion-~ is the high level of the speech of New Zealenders. Speech in England is a thing -of extremes, from the absurd affectation of the ultra-Oxford accent to the slovenly carelessness of low class speech. The standard speech is that spoken generally by educated people in London, and that standard is probably more closely approached in New Zealand than in any other part of the world. One may miss the variety of dialect, but in. Dunedin one can hear as pure Scots speech as is heard in Edinburgh. The tourist paying this tribute to New Zealand speech was none other than Dame Sybil Thorndike, in an interview given to the New Zealand Herald.
J.W.
H.
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 493, 3 December 1948, Page 5
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161"THE NEW ZEALAND VOICE" New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 493, 3 December 1948, Page 5
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