COVENTRY
Sir--Has the pronunciation of Coventry been changed recently? In tonight’s 9 o’clock news the announcer (or reader) pronounced it properly-i.e., KUVENTRI-and corrected himself, adding KOVEN-TRI. I have never heard it called KOV-entry at Home any more than covenant is pronounced KOVENANT. So also Pontius Pilate is generally mispronounced here. He should be pronounced as Puntius, of course. It would seem that the instinct of tonight’s news reader was to say KUVENTRI but that he had been instrycted otherwise. Now why?
R. S.
JARDIN
(Takapuna).
(KUV-entry has been KOV-entry in Cov. entry for 600 years.-Ed.).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 251, 14 April 1944, Page 5
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95COVENTRY New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 251, 14 April 1944, Page 5
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