AMERICANISED CANADA
The English language is being lost in Canada, according to Mr C. Egerton Lowe, examiner for the Trinity College of Music, London, who visited Toronto recently. Canadians now speak “American,” not English, he has complained in an interview. “Lip and tongue laziness” is the reason he gives for the lapse. “Canadians are going back,” he said. “When I came here in 1928 it was the exception to find wrong pronunciations of words and mispronunciation of the vowel ‘u’ and of the short ‘a’ where we use the broad ‘a’. Now, however, the Canadian speech is going well on the American side rather than the English side. This makes a difficulty where candidates in our examinations are reciting great English verse or prose.” This criticism is being keenly debated by language students in Canada.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 47, Issue 2666, 6 September 1937, Page 7
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