“ABOMINABLE BREED”
OXFORD ACCENT DENOUNCED PRINCE DECLARED AN OFFENDER “HAS A COCKNEY ACCENT” By Telegraph.—Press Assd.— Copyright. (Sydney “Sun" Cable.) (Received April 29, 9.50 p.m.) LONDON, April 28. During the course of a debate at the London School of Economics on the English language, Mr St. John Ervine, the dramatist and novelist, declared that the Prince of Wales had a marked Cockney accent. The Prince’s parents pronounced their “r’s,” but the Prince did not. He also said “howp” when he meant “hope.” Mr Ervine added that he recently heard one of the Prince’s brothers say “Dook of Yawk.” Mr Ervine denounced the Oxford accent’s invasion of the stage and the pnlpit, and demanded that many clergymen be unfrocked for using it. The Oxford accent, he said, had migrated from the East End slums to the West End slums. H» appealed to tho female portion of his audience to refuge to marry men with an Oxford accent, and thereby refuse to perpetuate an abominable breed that was ruining the beautiful English language.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12434, 30 April 1926, Page 4
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