Sir,-Never did I imagine myself defending the English or the pronunciation of our M.P.s; but your pompous "Auditor Particular’ surely needs correction himself. "Illegible" is not wrongly stressed on the second syllable. His use of "ilk" is vulgar. And the under-stressing of the prepositions in the quoted passage of
the Gettysburg speech which he recommends is no less absurb than over-stress-ing; the prepositions were just as important to Lincoln as "the people."
W. E.
MURPHY
(Lower Hutt).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1053, 30 October 1959, Page 11
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