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Old 06-01-2020, 12:55 AM
raymo
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I remember back in the forties and fifties, and probably earlier, the BBC newsreaders used to have to look through the upcoming news bulletin and find out how to correctly pronounce any word or name that they were not
familiar with. There would be tut tut letters in the readers' letters the next day
if a newsreader made a slip up.
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