CORRECT PRONUNCIATION
DESIRE OF 8.8. C. The 8.8. C. is always grateful for ,re« liable.information on tne correct pro* nunciation of proper names. Professoi A. Lloyd James, the secretary of th< B. Advisory Committee on Spoken English, recently made an appeal t« listeners for help, which applies alsd to those resident in the Empire. “ There are hundreds of family names, surnames, and, indeed, Christian names that are not easy id pronounce at sight. Marjoribanks w« know, but there are hosts of others, ii not so outrageously unlike theii spelling, at any rate quite bad enough to make announcers tremble when they have to be read aloud. If yon (know a name, your own name, or anybody else’s, that is often mispronounced, send it on a post card with the corl rect pronunciation indicated as ao curately as you can possibly show it,’* Many Empire place names appear ix the news bulletin or the programmes, and listeners can render service by writing to the 8.8. C. when they heai a name pronounced which is not is accordance with authoritative local usage. This applies equally to name* of persons and places.
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Evening Star, Issue 22578, 20 February 1937, Page 4
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189CORRECT PRONUNCIATION Evening Star, Issue 22578, 20 February 1937, Page 4
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