Dispiriting Age

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Glancing through the letters and emails I've received over the year, I find that pronunciation and accents on the radio still trouble Spectator readers, which is encouraging. A Scottish reader, Gordon McNeill from Queensferry, seems to suggest that those who use Received Pronunciation which everyone can readily understand are dying out. He found what he called 'Estuarine' easier on the ear than 'the braying and squawking of home counties' speakers'.

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Dispiriting Age

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Dispiriting age

Someone asked me the other day whether or not I listen regularly to Desert Island Discs on Radio Four. I told her I don't, and she asked why. All I could say was that quite often I am simply not sufficiently interested in th...

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