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Sir-I can sympathise with Roberta Highton (Listener, April 20) over the ériticism of the BBC announcers, for as a second genetation New Zealander and constant listetier I feel that their voices and pronunciation are usually so cleat that this is quite undeserved. But I must add that, like C. W. Thevenard (Listener, April 13) I have found a few of the speakets in talks far from easy to follow. I would like to point out to Roberta Highton, however, thet every Dorninion seems to be evolving its own
way of speaking and pronouncing English, just as Arfierica has done. This young arid growifg Country must fot be expected to try to remain a shadow of the mother countty, much as we admire her way of life. We are told that we are the most English of the Dominions, and perhaps this leads English people to expect too much of us. Other outside influences will leave their mark on a country so isolated by distance from the world’s centres. Surely Roberta Highton’s scathing remarks could not only be engendered by the criticism of two wufiappreciative listeners to the BBC. Perhaps there has been an expectation of an exact replica of the English way of life out here.-If we fail by English standards (in her eyes) in other ways we must, as New Zealatidets, plead guilty, but we cannot honestly apologise. For this is New Zea-
land!
UNDESERVED
(Katikati).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 877, 25 May 1956, Page 5
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