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HOW DO
YOU RATE YOUR ACCENT?
TRY THIS: I know Featherstonehaugh at Magdalen College, but when I met him at the Belvoir Hunt he entirely misled me with his pronunciation of Arkansas. JOHN SNAGGE, veteran BBC announcer, was claiming to me that he had lost his Oxford accent years ago.
Then he said: "Shall we go owf to the club?”
Well, we went "awf" to the club. And with some other BBC men we discussed good English. What is it? Who speaks it?
"It's changed a lot," wald Smagne, who began brúadeust-
praeffer Announcers su say
ing 34 years ago, try nut to Peunstable" for a policemans, Bul ayaw because that's gone "uvvej" for "novel" is now a out of fashies.
| Fashed upper-classism,
"t's the Oxford atera, いず "Mayfair et chney." I was brought
up to mek. You know. yell went to Seutland (for Scotland)
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OOK at it," Ronald Ayres said, peering through the French, windows. "I've let the garden go wild because you told me not to do gardening with my weak back." Mra Ayres took up the story. "And he doesn't pick up any heavy things since you told him not to," she said. "On holidays had to struggle with the luggage."
"would yo14 One way and another it.
mind opening seemed I had caused a re- your mouth?" I asked him,
Yes, there were the two volution in the Ayres house gully tones. Qdolly Ronald hold when I saw Ronald Ayres agreed to have them Ayres last spring.
removed. He was prepared to with occsional sort Then he had complained of put up.
not with attacks lumbago, and after had throats but
It
**What
to call the me with his pronunciation of cleared I had warned him not of lumbago as well, Mrs Ayres to indulge exercises that urged him to have this minor
in Oxford accent no longer exists,"
might strain his back muscles, operation. he said. "Like it or not, the
we used
Arkansas,
HBC announcer's pronunciation Correctly, it is said: "I knew is what most people think to be Fanshaw al Mowdin College, 'right-though we have made but when I met him with the to shout. But for the South
speech change mistakes." In
Beaver Hunt he entirely misled you took a train from much faster than we believe, and Coast
me with his proNUNciation of Charing Crass."
Scagge has been astonished to these "aws" have hear how his voice sounded on become plain "" Jrt BBC 30-year-old recordings.
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27 Calls.
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During the war the BBC Arkansaw. persisted in talking about ration "coupongs," French-style, when everybody else in Britain was queueing for their "koop'ns."
It took the BBC even longer to decide that nobody outside a broadcasting studio ever called a questionnaire a "kestionnaire."
The way people speak la so bound up with snobbery and class distinction that the BBC Koer very canny before it changes anything in the rule book. When In doubt if sides with upper-class speech. Jchn Snagge could think of only one exception to this rule. Years ago the BBC ran ahead of the democratiss- 1ion of the Queen's English and decided that "garridge" was what most people called a garage.
Traps
Names of people and places are the easiest things to mispro- nounce, so Snagge and I evolved a sentence with as many linguls- tic traps as we could think of
This is it. I knew Feather- stonehaugh at Magdalen College, but when i met him at the Helvair Hunt he entirely misled
CHESS
BY LEONARD BARDEN
I had to admit then that I I suppose she suddenly had a the real vision of her husband carrying had not discovered
of his lumbago,
Али па My the luggage la future, cause
of the frenet advice had been given in the sho gazed pu
windows I guesred that stre hope of preventing tocks.
could see the garden trim agalu.
-(London Exprres Service).
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Mr Ayres certainly looked a sorry sight. Despite his recent Italian utan, his left hand was clapped to his back and the corners of his mouth turned down.
I thought } knew only one person who pronounced “misled" ka "mizzled." But apparently it is a common mistake, It's been heard over the air, und Elizabeth Miller, who runs the BBC's Pro- Sometimes backache is due to nunciation Department, bas disc conditions, sometimes to heard it twice from the pulpit. } arthritic changes in the spine,
"Not. I hasten to say, in Scot- land," said Mrs Miller, who comes from Pitlochry, Her en- re department consists of four women, two Scottish, two Irish.
Tricky
"Nevertheless, we supply what we hope is the standard Southern
of English pronunciation
Boy fricky words or names," sold Mr Miller.
"Theims" pronounced the French way like a nasal "Rinse sounds ridiculous on any Eng- lish tongue. "Reems,"
unwary
but more common to sprain of the back ligaments, or tearing of some small muscle abres.
Some people just seem have a weak back and they get pain there after a cold or even when they Are emotionally upset.
"Nonsense," said Ronald. +19 wan's emotionally upset until I got this blasted back."
THE CLUE
Whatever the cause of his Ayres backache, I knew Mc would feel better if he went to bed with aspiring, a hot water bottle, and perhaps liniments.
about to suggest this when Ronald Ayres growled: 13 becomes "And don't just tell me to go
I was
to bed with aspiring, please America is full of traps for the doctor. I'm an behing with my
Englishman, Tucson, work at the office." Arizona, is pronounced Tew- "You see," his wife explained, son you say Boise, Idaho, as "before his holiday he was Jald though it were the opposite of up with tonsillitis." "girlie;" the San Joaquin Valley in California is pronounced "San Wawkeen" and a Sioux Indian Ja simply a *Sco,"
Drawl
The BBC goen ** far in it can in saying American names the way Amerkane say them, but it draws the line at Ball- more, Maryland.
Inadvertently, she had given me a clue. Diagnoses for back- che have in the past tended to
Not become over-fashlanable. such a long time ago every cato, of lumbago was the result of a "slipped" disc.
Years before that, doctors used to say it was due to a focal infection. The fact t
the sometimes a lumbago T result of a "tipped" diac. And sometimes badáčke can remit froth a focal infection.
Toce} infection! What' this focal Infection?" Mr Arres
a low
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"Bome "people" have, grade infection somewhere in the body anel it in an if the one | taxine frùm ihla cestne trouble
elresohere," X explained.
In Haltimore Itself this is pro- nounced "Dailmore, Meriin." It's remarkable the way an Ameri- can drawt can reduce the word "Maryland" aloon to syllable.
Worst DÍACO-NAME ozlatako avay mada occurred during the independence celebrations of un African nation.
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