change; we cannot help It, and we cannot ■top it. We can only follow what we belleye to be the best usage, and we suggest that the Church and the stage are upon the whole the best repositories of pronunciation. We should not be understood to say that they are perfect, since both hare their affectations, their tricks, and their manner-
isms. Moreover, it is sad that while laziness is a vice, yet in the end it moulds language so that the accurate man says to-day what the lazy man said yesterday. 1 '
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Otago Witness, Issue 3773, 6 July 1926, Page 66
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