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Sir, — I wish to endorse all that “Related ’ say's. He might have written a great deal more. A lady principal of a girls’ school recently told her pupils. “Above all. to be naice.” We do not want either the Oxford bleat or the dreadful Cockney accent introduced into our country. Lady Brassey, when visiting New Zealand in the Sunbeam, was full of praise for the style « speech and manners of the colon aJs. Let me tell an incident which wa* overheard on one of our ferry beats. It was growing dusk. Two women, evidently sisters, were sitting on tbe deck. “Aw, Emily, this is no oor Buekenliead. no twalit, Emily.” "* no the twalit I miss; it's the pig pieThey tak so funny.” A good many arriving here should be called upon to pass a language test. These dialects are so difficult to understand. M. JONES. The Esplanade. New Plymouth.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 749, 23 August 1929, Page 8
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