From year 1980s onwards, the proper Cantonese pronunciation has been much promoted in Hong Kong, with the scholar Richard Ho Man Wui as its iconic campaigner. The very idea of "proper" pronunciation of Cantonese is very controversial, since there is no such a thing as "mispronunciation" in descriptive linguistics.
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