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<blockquote data-quote="dxhound2003" data-source="post: 1099341" data-attributes="member: 232371"><p>Nothing new under the sun.</p><p></p><h3>Lazy speech: teacher critical of southerners – archive, 1938</h3><p><strong>6 August 1938:</strong> A speech training mistress tells how slovenly we are becoming in our speech today</p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/aug/06/lazy-speech-teacher-critical-of-southerners-archive-1938#img-1" target="_blank"><img src="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d2419aedc1478792bc263c1f4602120d0daf141d/240_85_1093_656/master/1093.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=1575782d90dde1eb3507f0a3bd2277fa" alt="Diners in Aldersgate Street, London, 1941." class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p> </p><p>Strong criticism of the growth of slovenly speech in this country was made by Miss M.C. Cobby, the speech training mistress at Latymer School, Edmonton, when she addressed members of the City of London Vacation Course in England at Bedford College, Regent’s Park, yesterday.</p><p><img src="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/7/14/1436874293923/8781965e-7d69-460a-8716-fb6588331437-1020x612.jpeg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=218dfbac8a3da3319c5cfb6ba92a1192" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><h3>From the archive, 15 July 1916: Editorial: A standard of spoken English</h3><p></p><p>“We endeavour daily,” she said, “to inculcate habits of cleanliness and good behaviour in our children, so why not teach them also to speak well. We do not want pedantic speakers who always go one better than the required standard of speech. Nor do we want the people who pride themselves in being colloquial and who say, ‘Joo-no-er?’ for ‘Do you know her?’ Both these types of speakers are offensive. As teachers, therefore, we must do our best to preserve the best features of the King’s English and to restrict the absorption of any element, whether from the drawing-room or from the gutter.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dxhound2003, post: 1099341, member: 232371"] Nothing new under the sun. [HEADING=2]Lazy speech: teacher critical of southerners – archive, 1938[/HEADING] [B]6 August 1938:[/B] A speech training mistress tells how slovenly we are becoming in our speech today [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/aug/06/lazy-speech-teacher-critical-of-southerners-archive-1938#img-1'][IMG alt="Diners in Aldersgate Street, London, 1941."]https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d2419aedc1478792bc263c1f4602120d0daf141d/240_85_1093_656/master/1093.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=1575782d90dde1eb3507f0a3bd2277fa[/IMG][/URL] Strong criticism of the growth of slovenly speech in this country was made by Miss M.C. Cobby, the speech training mistress at Latymer School, Edmonton, when she addressed members of the City of London Vacation Course in England at Bedford College, Regent’s Park, yesterday. [IMG]https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/7/14/1436874293923/8781965e-7d69-460a-8716-fb6588331437-1020x612.jpeg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=218dfbac8a3da3319c5cfb6ba92a1192[/IMG] [HEADING=2]From the archive, 15 July 1916: Editorial: A standard of spoken English[/HEADING] “We endeavour daily,” she said, “to inculcate habits of cleanliness and good behaviour in our children, so why not teach them also to speak well. We do not want pedantic speakers who always go one better than the required standard of speech. Nor do we want the people who pride themselves in being colloquial and who say, ‘Joo-no-er?’ for ‘Do you know her?’ Both these types of speakers are offensive. As teachers, therefore, we must do our best to preserve the best features of the King’s English and to restrict the absorption of any element, whether from the drawing-room or from the gutter.” [/QUOTE]
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