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Sir,-Like your correspondent Isabel M. Cluett I have my own pet aversions, two of which are kept alive by radio announcers, They appear never to have heard of such a word as "medicine"its place is taken by the slipshod "medsin." Another word which I detest is "exquizite," with the emphasis definitely on the "quiz." Or am I like the old lady who objected to slang, and who told her granddaughter there were two words she never wished to hear her use, They~ were "swell" and "lousy." "Oh Gran," said the modern -- "Do tell me what they are!"
E.
S.
(Onehunga).
(The slip-shod "njedsin’’ has the support of Oxford.-Ed. ) :
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 500, 21 January 1949, Page 5
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109PRONUNCIATION New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 500, 21 January 1949, Page 5
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