...and while we're at it, could the club of broadcasters that lives in a closed little bubble stop forcing abominable mispronunciations on people in the big world outside? People who proTEST take part in PROtests. They are proTESTers, not PROtesters. So fuddled are broadcasters that some of them now talk about people PROtesting. For heaven's sake, can any of them actually read? If so, there are books called dictionaries, which usually offer advice on pronunciation and where the stresses go. They might try using them once in a while.
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Hymnathon
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Friends and followers may be interested in this hymnathon at St Michael and
All Angel, Bedford Park: http://www.smaaa.org.uk/news_events/Hymnathon.html
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The Valleys of the Assassins: Freya Stark
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(published by the Modern Library, $15.00, or from Amazon)
When planning my trip to Qatar, it was hard to decide on reading material.
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