'Southern' English language course for foreign teachers – archive, 1922

2 August 1922: Foreign pupils will learn to say a good, straightforward "nice" and an honest "time," and will not attempt the popular "naice" and "taime"

If Chaucer could come back to earth and attend the vacation course in English phonetics for foreign teachers of English which commenced at University College to-day he would probably understand less of the explanations than say, the visitors from Egypt and Czecho-Slovakia, who are attending in force. Professor Daniel Jones, head of the Department of Phonetics at the College, has often explained how "Cockney" has preserved many of the olds English speech sounds which are now taboo in polite society.