MICROPHONE MISTAKES
Sir.-It was pleasing to note that jJ.C.R. found it infuriating to hear the announcer call Joyce Grenfell "Joyce Grenfield." I also found it so. But that’s only one of the many mistakes announcers make. Couldn’t someone ring up the Russian Legation and get the right pronunciation for Tchaikovski? Or ask Odnosopoff? But what about the announcer I have twice heard say "celloist," or the one who put the stress on the third syllable in "irrevocable"? Incidentally, I heard the Chairman of a Parents’ Association make the same mistake last year. What about the Scots (bet I get a bite) cricket commentator who always leaves the "g" out of "length," and the Scots weather fore-. caster whom it is actually hard to understand? Not that the others are much better when they talk of "districks." Then there are those two constant Americanisms creeping in, "boquet" and "rowmance." Can’t some of the teachers in the schools get on to these two abominations? The other night I rang our local station and asked why the speaker said "fertill" for "fertile," and was told that Daniel Jones put it first. Well, this is never heard in New Zealand, and I can see no sense in using it. Then there was the announcer two or three weeks ago
who, when announcing Band Contest results, nearly bust himself saying "Fwhanganui," and then in the next breath put the emphasis on the third syllable of "municipal." I notice most primary school children say this, and it’s time the teachers noticed it also, unless they all say it themselves. Finally, I cannot understand why the Broadcasting authorities take perfectly good announcers off the air and make them local managers./ Surely the announcer is much more important than the manager, and should be paid higher. He’s in direct contact with the public and makes or mars a station.
TOUCHY
(Palmertson North).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 923, 18 April 1957, Page 11
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314MICROPHONE MISTAKES New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 923, 18 April 1957, Page 11
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