RADIO PRONUNCIATION
J to tbtb sorrom o» t*« - .• 3 ; Sir, —The; radio- pronunciations "con-' 3 tinue to be wonderful and -at •■timesj fc weird. On Tuesday, night .the annota- : tor of chamber music from3YLfgave- - us Verdi with, a full Italian: flavour, and immediately followed :it with:: a" reference to the composer’s;.■ • ■ opera“lda”! On Wednesday the gentleman 5 who gives us the news from the Prime. • Minister’s office spoke .-dt ‘‘Point; : Chevalyeh,” an Anglo-French mixi ture as bewildering as the incapac- , ity of the National Broadcasting. Ser- : vice to decide whether'the; Czecho- • Slovak capital is “Prahg” or “Preyg.” I The Czechs call the city “Praha,’*; with ! the first “a” as m “arm” and the scci ond “a” slightly shorter,because it, is ; not stressed; - but aU authorities :agree ■ that the Anglicised form has the “a” • as in “mate.”—Yours, etc., AMUSED LISTENER. September 22, 1938,
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22514, 23 September 1938, Page 5
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