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Sir,-I was interested to read Ruby Clift’s letter on standard English in reply to A. R. D. Fairburn’s article, While I fully agree that all people applying for a teaching position should have as an essential qualification a good speaking voice, I do not agree that all teachers in England have it. I have lived many years both in England and New Zealand, and some of the most unpleasant voices I have ever heard have come from England; and definitely some of the worst enunciation. Although I know there is tremendous room for improvement in speech here, I have been to many private gatherings where one and all spoke just as well as an equivalent gathering in London. I feel it is time the English people, and many New Zealanders, alas, ceased being so smug about English speech and critical about New Zealand accents and tried to improve bad or indistinct speech wherever they mav hear it.
EILEEN
KIMBELL
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 920, 29 March 1957, Page 11
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162STANDARD ENGLISH New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 920, 29 March 1957, Page 11
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