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Thread #124681 Message #2757105
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
31-Oct-09 - 08:58 PM
Thread Name: BS: American English usages taking over Brit
Subject: RE: BS: American English usages taking over Brit
McGrath, I listen to the BBC News and business news, and I agree that they try to get names correctly. One evening, wanting a repeat of a changing story on the business news, I listened twice, an hour apart. The broadcaster got a name wrong in the first, but corrected herself next time around. An excellent group of broadcasters!
There is so little foreign news on American news broadcasts that they have scant opportunity to go wrong!
The jag-u-ar does sound odd to me, partly because of the Spanish influence in most places I have lived. It must sound odd to some Englishmen as well since the Oxford English Dictionary puts the two-syllable pronunciation first! Or is it just the Oxbridge-Edinburgh graduates who follow the OED?