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Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 2, 22 July 1932, Page 7

The Winning Par 'PLAIN JANE;" of Wellington, sends uS the following winning par: Listening to the taiks on cooking from two or three stations reveals the disparity in pronunciation by various recipe readers who enlighten uS with their hints and elucidations of culinary mysteries. Among 0{ those words with optional pronunciations is mar- J1 garine; and I never say it or hear it without calling to mind the story of the two commercial travellers who were staying overnight in 2 palatial Scottish railway hotel where both were well known: Dur- ing the evening they fell to discussing whether the bard or soft g in 'margarine" was correct. They had reached no decision when an old friend, in the person of James,; the waiter; entered the room _ They called him and asked wbether it should be called 46 44 'margarine" (soft) or 'margarine" (hard) _ He hesitated for a moment, then said, quietly, We calls it 'butter; = sir, or we gets the sack +} "Spark' awards a weekly prize of 5 /- for the { best original par: Address Spark, Box 1032, Wellington.