Some Curious Spelling
Pur B.B.C. letter-file holds the following renderings of the word "selectivity" :-Celektivety, Cilactivity, Ciliberty, Blactivity. Inactivity, Lacktivey, Sinevlivetry, Silvitity, Seractiverty, Telectiverty, Seelctiffity, Captivity, and Selactivity. Another listener praised his sei’s "Select Tiverty": but perhaps the most remarkable was the set Whose "Oivie tactivity" was so noticeable,
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Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 12, 2 October 1931, Page 12
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49Some Curious Spelling Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 12, 2 October 1931, Page 12
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