SPOILING THE LANGUAGE.
AN AUSTRALIAN- HABIT. [from ouu own correspondent. ] SYDNEY. May 26. "Why is it that in France and Eng land Australians have the name of speak ing so badly ?" asked Miss E. F. Craig 8.A., at a meeting of the English and Modern Language Association in Brisbane last week. "Why is generally accepted that as one is an Australian, he is not expected to speak correctly; that he cannot speak correctly V Why was it tha.t Australians allowed to pass so frequently unnoticed, or not corrected, the wrong pronunciations heard on every side ? Miss Craig continued. Was it "that they feared the task was too big for them? The fact remained that there was a tendency to spoil the language in Australia by bad pronunciation* and it was time Australians pulled themselves up rather sharply*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19658, 9 June 1927, Page 14
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