English language - Pronunciation

Date: 1993

From: Body, Guy fl 1990s : New Truth & TV Extra cartoons. 5 - 12 February 1993

Reference: H-092-001

Description: Shows 2 Australian men, with corks bobbing from their hat brims, arriving at Bondi Beach, where a passport control officer beside a New Zealand flag tells them the New Zealand pronunciation of Bondi Beach. A man is lying on the beach under a sun umbrella decorated with kiwis. Refers to the large numbers of New Zealanders at Bondi Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

Date: 1994

From: Clark, Laurence [Klarc] 1949- :Editorial cartoons. 1 March - 30 April 1994

Reference: H-114-014

Description: Shows Paul Keating and Jim Bolger having a telephone conversation. The Australian and the New Zealand pronunciation of vowels is reproduced phonetically. Refers to a game-show contestant who was penalized for his Australian pronunciation of the word "Stills", which the host mistook for "Steels". Also refers to Paul Keatingt's support for republicanism, a cause picked up by Bolger, and to the controversial health reforms Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

Date: 1929-1937

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-61

Description: Includes Maori history, the effects of colonisation, Maori trans-Pacific migration, Maori and Pakeha internal and external travel, geographical histories, New Zealand flora and fauna, religion, astrology, health, disease, language, place names, poems and volcanology Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph and printed matter (some with holograph annotations)

Date: 1976, [1976]

From: Catley, Christine McKelvie Cole (Dame), 1922-2011 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11651-213

Description: Contains ca.1976 National Party statement on broadcasting policy, copy of speech `What about the mess, Charlie?' by Hugh Templeton and letter from A R Cant to Alister McIntosh concerning language use and pronunciation. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts and printed matter

Date: 1952-1953, 1977

From: Gordon, Ian Alistair, 1908-2004: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6984-08

Description: Includes notes and correspondence re the New Zealand Broadcasting Service series Say it in English series 1-13 (1952) and 1-13 (1953). Also notes re articles in the New Zealand Listener, 1977. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres.

Date: [ca 1981]

From: Gordon, Ian Alistair, 1908-2004: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6984-09A

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres.

Date: 1711, [ca 1980-1998]

From: Gordon, Ian Alistair, 1908-2004: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6984-10

Description: Includes newspaper and journal articles entitled English in the public service, Ballad of desktop publishers (poem), Submission, perfection and pass (re presentation of theses) and Punctuation. Also the article A word about Prof Ian Gordon's "Words" by Tian Yusan. Also includes correspondence, notes for television programmes, a photocopy of The Spectator (19 May 1711) and notes re the history of the English dictionary. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres.

Date: [ca 1946-1990s]

From: Gordon, Ian Alistair, 1908-2004: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6984-11

Description: Includes broadcast scripts and lectures re writing business letters; Robert Burns; early NZ novels (including Tutira by Guthrie-Smith); NZ poetry; Katherine Mansfield; Scotland; James Boswell; Thomas Campbell; and a series on the history of the novel Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres.

Date: [ca 1981]

From: Gordon, Ian Alistair, 1908-2004: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6984-09B

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres.