THE BEST ENGLISH.
WHERE IT IS HEARD. Perfect English can be heard atjOxSunlsev'Tnsaucto? for Speech Defects at statement made at an Oxford summer u~!i k,- Mr T It Firth, who said the school by Mr. J. -it. * U . LI ' TI , vMinbest English is spoken ni Dubl n Ldin burgh, Inverness, Jsorwich, Cambrid o , "SmTfMI. has left out hundreds oi nlaces " said Mr. Rumsey. ' I have all possible bias, but 1 must admit at , Pe Pr" r" feot English is heard at Oxford also. Mr -Vlfred E. Johns, of the English Speaking Union, said: ."You cannot differentiate between certain towns. Firth has been guilty of mistakes. >or wich people have a clipped intonation which I find somewhat disagreeable. There is very little difference between the English spoken by educated people in this country and the United States. Ihe.r dictiou is the same as ours, except for slight difference in intonation when the give that upward to the final syllable of a word.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20982, 19 September 1931, Page 9 (Supplement)
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161THE BEST ENGLISH. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20982, 19 September 1931, Page 9 (Supplement)
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