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Sir-May I make a final reply to Roberta Highton and Sandra Du Plat on BBC broadcasts? Both have deduced from my letters my desire to rush quickly to the: defence of our own announcers. This" was not my intention, for I was as shocked as R.H: at the undeserved criticism of the BBC, and most sincere in my support of her protest. But I did want to point out that we have evolved our own accent peculiar to this Dominion and that we do pronounce some words differently from the accepted BBC standard. There isn’t anything we can do about it at this stage of our history. Like Topsy, "it just growed." I would, however, make a further mild protest at‘the classing of us all as "New Zealanders who -’ and not qualifying the remarks as "some" or "many" New Zealanders. A number of Us are just as aware of our own shortcomings. as people from overseas, and can truly appreciate the best in broadcasting, as from the BBC, I most regretted the intensity of Roberta Highton’s retort in her first letter, appearing to dismiss us as a lot of ignoramuses, when I feel sure many of us regretted the initial criticism.
UNDESERVED
(Katikati).
(This correspondence is now closed.--Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 888, 10 August 1956, Page 5
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