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Sir,—The English spoken among the children in tho Auckland district has a great deal of tho American element in it. They suffer from mispronunciation of tho vawel-MOurulN and it tit ttbuurd to bring up tho question of 'ho dialect of the Home coiifitiw in cotuparmon with Now Zealand.fip'il;«ti RiiklMi. Dialect is the product. «<f Inittdiedn of years" cultivation of what was originally practically a language of it.-, •"vii, Poi'tionally I find it a plouMU'O to li .1 <mi to f.bo voices of those "lioinicfi" I liave met, and rejoice to hear decent I.V "tp"lc)i l'.o|/!ifili arid well pronounced wunls ftfriid the afipaliing AmeiicaniMin which are t-.n prevalent among tho majority of penple hi the North Island. Tli« merit fact of my being a New Zea--1 (older does not, blind me to the defects arid deficiencies in « mir language, which as our hei'iiufrn -vi! fthoultl utrive to keep free from tlni "di'Mc.nciii-tJng influence of less careful count cie", and tlieir mis-pronunci-ation of tile wni'dw of that language. G.a
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19718, 18 August 1927, Page 12
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