Monday, 2 July 2012

Inane pronunciation of (foreign) place names

Can we have some consistency over this subject please ? Ever heard anyone on telly or radio pronounce Paris as 'Paree', Munich as 'Munchen'  or Rome as 'Roma' ? No ?! Though not. So why in God's name do we have to put up with crappy faux pronunciations of other less common place names ? I once sat through an excruciating travel report by Judith r*ddy Chalmers on the Hungarian capital Budapest which she insisted on calling 'Budapesht'. Frustratingly that's the only example I recall off the  top of my head, but I've heard more, I know I have, and when I hear them again - up they'll go.. if my names not 'middle England'.

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