I worked for a few years as an announcer in a classical music radio station. Necessary qualifications for the job included some acquaintance with the music, but mainly, ability to read and pronounce words and names in miscellaneous languages other than English (even if one couldn't actually speak the language) in a manner more-or-less acceptable to a speaker of the language in question. I had no trouble with the French, Italian, and German, and I could even handle Russian names like baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky, cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, and conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky without chipping a tooth. (Try 'em!)

But "Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu" has me completely buffaloed!!

Don Firth