MR. BALFOUR'S "ACCENT"
Mr. A. J. Balfour (the British Foreign Minister) must have charmed his recont hosts in America, for thoy are approving oven of the way he speaks American! In a eulogy in the "Now York Timas" it is said:— "Several of Mr. Balfour k naarrre have noted with interest that he speaks with only a trace of what we, s.bsardiy enough, lire wont lo call an 'English accent.' All but a few, a very few, of his words he pronounces just about rs H'.cy are pronounced by those of us who have had a decent amount of scltoolin;* and have not passed too much of our lives in parts of the country sufficiently isolated to develop—and maintain—a distinciwe variant of 'American.' "It is he, and men like him, the article goes on to say, "not tho. pooplo who talk one or another British dialect, •whom tho ambitious Americans should try to imitate.'
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3192, 17 September 1917, Page 7
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