Variation in pronunciation occurs in all varieties of English, both geographically (you say tomayto, I say tomahto) and socially (you say fish, I say fush). They want to preserve the English language (which, as the dominant language of the world, probably doesn’t need their support). It is linguistically natural to pronounce such borrowings in an ‘’English way’’, for example pronouncing the ‘t’ at the end of croissant. But there are sometimes broader social and political reasons to take care when pronouncing words from other languages in English. STACY SQUIRES Anton Matthews gives the correct pronunciation of Māori place names in Te Waipounamu/South Island.

Source: Stuff July 05, 2021 21:45 UTC