CONTEMPORARY SPEECH
Sir-I read on page 4 of & recent issue that "Station 1YA will present in their Classical Hour" and that ""the Variety Orchestra are. , . exposed more... than any other body." Surely an orchestra is,-not are, a body? And still more surely a broadcasting station presents its, not their, Classical Hour? Such lapses are not, of course, confined to your columns-the English newspaper cutting quoted on Page 5 contains three striking examples-but they are more to be regretted there since a broadcasting magazine is by implication a model of contemporary speech, I trust, Mr. Editor, that you do not approve of the damage your staff ds doing to the English language. ;
RICHARD
DENNANT
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 523, 1 July 1949, Page 5
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114CONTEMPORARY SPEECH New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 523, 1 July 1949, Page 5
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