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RADIO TOPICS
RADIO FOR BLIND.
BRITISH FREE. LICENCES:
CONCESSION,
AUTOMATIC PHONE.
ROTARY SYSTEM STARTED IN SPAIN.
3,800 KILOMETRES LONG.
PLACE NAMES.
BROADCASTING PRONUNCIA- TION PROBLEMS.
The Wireless Telegraphy (Blind
Mr. A. Lloyd James, Lecturer in Parsons Facilitica) Bill having re-
Phonetics at the London School of ceived the Royal Assent. blind por
The China Electric Co., Ltd., Oriental Studies and Secretary of sons, on, application to the local au- thorities in whose books they are Shanghai, inform the "China Maithe B.B.C. Advisory Committee on registered, will be entitled to free that they have received a cable Spoken English, was interviewed in wireless Hconces on and after from New York about the retary reference to the B.B.C.'s new rules telephone
of pronuniciation, and particularly exchange Jan. Captain Ian Fraser, M.P. automatic for St. Pancras N., who la himself equipment supplied by their asso- the matter of place-names. Ho
sald:--- blind, explained in an interviewciated company in Spain, Standard
My concern is with the type of that in order to obtain a free Electrica S/A. Heonce a blind person should make, Forty thousand ines of Rotary English sent out from 2LO. The application in person or in writing Automatic Telephone ExchangeB.B.C. fe the biggest purveyor of to the council of the county or equipment will shortly be installed necessary to andeavour to arrango English speech, and it has become county borough in whose aroa, ho or at Parts by their French associated that the type of speech used is she lives for a corticate stating company "Le Matorial Telephoni acceptable throughout the very that he or she is a registered blind
gue.".
large area served. The accepted' In addition to many other impor pronunciation of various words will been received which will not be for tunt cities throughout the world differ greatly in London, Rochdale. person. When this certificate has
few weeks--the blind person the "Rotary System" has been Aberdeen, and Belfast, and my com- should present it to his or her local post once, when a free licence will adopted by the following European mittee has no desire to establish a be issued Practically all blind capitals: Brussels, persons are already registered in the Bucharest, Copenhagen. The Hague uniform type of English. There is books of the local authorities, but Madrid and Oslo.
Distinguished Gathering.
Budapest,
those who are not should worthwith. The International Telephone and
make application for consideration
The record was established in a demonstration of the lines of the nation-wide system that has been built by "Compania Telefonica de Espana in the last 18 months, and altogether the distance covered was equal to that from Madrid, to
Moscow.
Under the Sea, The circuit did not extend beyond Spanish territory.
It did, however, croak the Straits of Gibraltar by submarine cable and unite the continents of Europe and Africa.
a desire, however, to eliminate from |the B.B.C. announcements any fen- tures likely to cause offence or widespread criticism...
"Nay-Worth" or "Nar-Worth?"
to.
Dealing with the subject of place=" names, Mr. James said difficulty
of a little humlet of which the arose over the proper pronunciation general community had never heard until a level crossing accident oc- curred there. He referred
The BBC announcer Naworth. had to read that name, and made a mistake. He called is "Nayworth" whereas the vicar and other local residents had written stating that the proper pronunciation was "Nar- worth."
TUESDAY FEBRUARY
DAILY CROSSWORD PUZZLE.
"(This, un vas-word puzzle has been made by an erper but our readers are warned to look out for occasio phonetic spellings, buck as harbor, plow, and altho;)
THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE,
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HORIZONTAL HORIZONTAL (Cont) 1-A scout
4-Vanomous serpant 7-A diploma skaleli, nima. 10-A metal
34-Employ 135-You!
37-Defeated
41
30-An allowanɑs' of
food for day
12-8mall orange on a ₤41Truck
ship 14-Declared 18-Now#papor paragraph
17-Garden tool 18-Rip
19-Nate in the souls 20-A. pastry 22-Article
24-A termination..of
numerals 25-Connarning 28-A color 28-A vegetable 80-Frans (abbr)
42-Mold 43-Previous bezga |44-Distinguished
Servloe Order (abbr.} 47-A unit.
VERTICAL 1-A crustaceani 2-irish fuel
B-You
4-LIKE
A short itterary
Partiola
·S-Freebooter
7-Restu.
8-A. brief letter
VERTICAL (Cont.)
Contented
1.1-A. kind: of ot 1124Faded [13-Pronoun
14-To put or plade. 16-Arld
21-Frozen water 23-To hasten 26-A: sphore. 26-To. hindam 127-Demand for
payment
26-By means of 20-Bring: Into harmony 31A brooklet "
36-Exclamation
38-Visual organo. » 40-80 bo It 44-Business: aondern
(abbr): 145-Act
SUGGESTIONS FOR BOLVING CROSS-WORD. PUZZLES: Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure: Thess will give you a clue to other wards crossing them, and they in, turni to sell others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at, the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both.
of their names. In the Administra-Telegraph Corporation of New
"It is necessary to avoid seeking tive County of London application York are in receipt af advice, from for a certificate should be made to their Madrid office that on Decem-o establish too close & relationship between orthography and pronun- the Metropolitan and Adjacent bar 29. King Alfonso, General Primo elation in the English language, 1 Counties Association for the Blind de Rivers and some 200 Government because the position is so, obscure House, 296, Vauxhall officials, diplomats and leading citind so lacking in general principle Denison Bridge-road, London, S.W. who aetzens of Spain participated in the that it is quite impossible to draw ay the agent of the London County establishment of new European long any broad conclusion. One of the distance telephone record when w Council in registration matters.
tasks of one Advisory Committee is A concession, has been made by conversation was carried on over to settle which one of many alter- the Fostmaster-General regarding circuit 3.800 kilometres long as native pronunciations the officials wireless licences held by bad feature of Inauguration of "Stand-of the B.B.C. shall use in the dis- people which should have been re-ard" rotary automatic telephone charge of their duties. There is no newed during the past month or service throughout Madrid.
desire to set up as the educators of the general public in pronunela- Viscount Wolmer. Assistant Post- mater-General in a letter to Cap
jition." tain Fraser states that if there is delay in issuing certificates no legal action will be taken against blind person who was preventédi through this delay from obtaining a free licence. Further, if the licence is in renewal of a licence which ex- pired before the end of the current year, the free licencu will be dated back to the proper date of renewal and 100 a month will be collectad for the period of use without a Heence in 1925. The free licence will then expire at the end of twelve months from the proper date Starting at Madrid, the circuit of renewal and will itself be renew-travelled north to San Sebastian on able, on production of a certificate, the Bay of Biscay, passing thence on the anniversary of the proper south-easterly to Barcelona on the date of renewal.
Mediterranean, then turning west- ward to Madrid, deflected. to the south and diving beneath the aur face of the sea at Algeciras brought up at Ceuta in the Spanish protec-
places like Gloucester, Leicester, torate of Morocco; returning north-
Spreading his hands over his Worcester, and a certain amount of ward to Madrid by another line the circuit then shot off toward Gall-crowded table, Mr. James said he information about smaller places. cia, terminating at Corruna on the had received many hundreds of like Leominster, but practically no The Federal Cabinet has decided northwest corner of the Iberian letters in response, and some of source of reliable Information re- them contained exceedingly valu-garding the local pronunication of to appoint a Royal Commission to in- Peninsula. vestigate the whole position of wire- Sixteen stations responded to the able lista of names, with the accept- the names of sundry small places.. Even when the It was in regard to these mainly less in Australia, according to a roll call over this circuit, and greeted pronunciation. statement made by Mr. George A.ings were then exchanged with the local pronunciation was ascertain that the Advisory Committee de- ed, it did not follow of necessity aired to compile a sort of pronoune- Taylor, president of the Association four corners of Spain.
that the Advisory Committee would ing gazetteer: for the Development of Wireless in
Primo de Rivera's Reply.
Names from the Greek. Australia,
The demonstration opened with a accept it: There might be special For example, five talk by the Marquis de Urquijo, circumstances.
Mr. James said that when the President of the company, in which years ago, few people had heard of Advisory Committee arrived at de- now familiar cisions their findings were generally he described the work accomplish-Daventry, a The Acting Prime Minister (Dred in the past year and a half. throughout the world. The accept-endorsed throughout the country, Page) will shortly announce the per- General Primo de Rivera' replied ec local pronunciation was "Dain- but if the pronunciation did not try" but he had to decide whether happen to be that favoured by a
RADIO INQUIRY.
A ROYAL COMMISSION IN AUSTRALIA.
The decision was arrived at. Mr. Taylor said. in response to re- queste by the association.
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sonnel of the commission, the date in the name of the Government, ex- of sitting, and full particulars.
It had been suggested that a dictionary of such place- names would be a very useful work of reference, and he had appealed. through the. Press and over the microphone for particulars of any such names with the accepted local pronunciation.
sion was also made at a conference tulating the company on what it had sal use.
short time.
name
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(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's išgur along with a new cross-word: puzzle.)
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The request for a Royal Commis.pressing appreciation and congra- that form was suitable for univer-particular man he was apt to criti- English, giving it an English sound, It would have been im-cise the Committee, and to use all English length, and English of radio Interests, held in Sydney realised for the benefit of the possible for French and German sorts of arguments in favour of his rhythm. One of the most difficult Home time ago, of which Mr. Taylor nation's communications in such a people to Identify "Daintry" with "Daventry," and so it had been de- was chairman,
After the roll call was completed, cided that this particular name "The points brought before the
the King of Spain, addressed the should be pronounced as spelt for Federal Cabinet were:
(1) The establishment of a Com-sixteen stations over the circuit, B.B.C. purposes. monwealth department of radio felicitating "Compania Telefonics National de Espana" and the control.
Spanish Nation upon the important advance which had been made in the telephone service of the country and expressing his satisfaction.
(2) The matter of the latitude of transmitting and receiving stations. (3) The provision of the best faci- lities for country broadcasting and receiving (probably by means of re- Jay stations).
(4) Wave lengths.
15) Better technical control of radio establishments.
The
proper
A favourite arument things was to decide when such a own form: was the stymological one. For In-word could be conveniently and atance, some people contended that properly Anglicised. There was no "kinenia" should be pronounced agreement on this point, and as the "ky-neema," because the "K" in Committee was laid Greek was hard. The reply of the frequent criticism. Committee was that the word was
open
to
Village Names, The announcer recently made reference to Finedon, which he no longer Greek but English, and "The French Government, follow rendered "Fine-don," whereas the they pointed out that in order to being the example of the British, is local pronounciation was "Fine- logical they would have to prd taking over control of broaden sting don." Keighley, again, was a nounce "century" as "kentury," be It in asuming possession of the sta Formal Opening by the King. stumbling block, to hundreds of cause the "e" In Latin was hard. tions within five years and estab This event was preliminary to people, and Swansea was almost In the view of the Committee, the lishing a committee of officials, formal opening by King Alfonso of invariably pronounced as though adoption of a foreign word by the authors, musicians. and lecturers to the new Madrid local telephone the second ayllable were the letter English language made it entirely, tervise programmes.
form system, completely installed in four- Mr. Taylor says, that only one teen months time by "Compania "Swanzy" sixteenth of radio Heteners in Telefonica Nacional de Espana," re- The caller suggested that Mr. N.S.W. are situated outside the me- placing with "Standard" rotary Lloyd George would almost cer- tropolitan area. Radio le a boon to automatic equipment and under- the man oh the land, but at present ground cables: the old manual: fainly use the first form, and Mr. he can only overcome long die-switchboards and overhead lines James admitted that this might be throughout the 80, because in North Wales there tances by buying expensive receiv- simultaneously ing gets.
capital, and was loudly acclaimed was no sound corresponding to "" by the public who had endured However, the Committee was not many years of inadequate facilities. I dealing with dialect, or they would
Madrid is second in the series of easily "confuse the issue.
Welsh
Mr. Baldwin, speaking at the Bri- tish Broadcasting Company's din-nineteen cities in which "Compania names presented considerable diffi For example, "Ystradgyn- ner, said that it was a matter for, Telefonica Nacional de Espana" cuity. profound congratulation and will convert the telephone service to lais should be pronounced "Us- thanksgiving that the birth of rotary automatic within the com trad-gun-lice": broadcasting in this country hading three years. been attended by such men an had
controlled the policy of their board. An energetic campaign is expect So long as the new board was et to be waged, against unlicensed animated by the spirit of the old listeners, the number of whom is there could be no fear as to the ertimated by a B.B.C. off-ial to be future of broadcasting
about half a million."
IS THAT SO? WELL YOU TELL THEM GUYS ILL BERICHT DOWN TO TALK TO THE GATHERIN'— I'M A MAN ÖF ME WORD ANNOTHIN) IS GOIN TO STOP ME FROM BEIN' ALDERMAN
IN THIS TOWN"
Talking of queer English names, Mr. James said one of the funniest sample that had reached him in car- respondence was Congresbury, which was locally pronounced. "Coomsbury," / There was aban- dance of informatku about large
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