Have Announcers a Hard Row to Hoe?

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 41, 19 April 1935, Page 50

Have Announcers a Hard Row to Hoe?

To the Editor Sir,-Just.a pat on the back for E.¥. When an announcer makes a slight error it is for all the (listening) world to hear, and there are plenty of critics to take him to task for even a Slip of the tongue. if we were to adopt the same attitude toward every book or magazine we read, 1 am afraid every. editor and author would incur our displeasure. Pronunciation is also another matter we must be tolerant toward, for who is to say which is the correct way of pronouncing the name of India’s lofty mountain range, Hima-layas or Him-ahlayas, as we have it from overSeas speakers? My son has just brought home a cireu-' lar headed "Students’ Fees," and tells me that the apostrophe is there because it is possessive case, but what I wish to know is how can they be possessive when the student parts with them?-I am, etc., POOR OLD JOE. » Levin.