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More punnery, this time from Alex Miller: "Maybe it's just the pronunciation on TMS, but am I the only one who thinks Morne Morkel should be nicknamed 'Cod'?" Collingwood pushes three to mid-on and that's edged by Bell!

Estuary-accented TV Tweenies have replaced Daphne Oxenford's received pronunciation on Radio 4's Listen with Mother?

I started Riddley Walker in straight English but my characters wouldn't wear it, they insisted on breaking up long words and imposing their own grammar, syntax and pronunciation on their vernacular.

During a Spanish-language class, he becomes upset when the teacher impugns his eighth-grade-level pronunciation; on a tour of the Havana Club rum distillery, he badgers the young guide to move things along to the tasting session at the bar; he commandeers a salsa band, singing gibberish.

That is why, despite my support for evolution in accents (and I have never before thought of myself as an adherent of Darwin and Dawkins), I still back the idea of received pronunciation on our major stages and on the BBC's national networks.

Poor staff compliance with practicing with the audio CD prior to bedside pilot of the instrument limited usefulness of the communication tool, and inclusion of phonetic pronunciation on the printed instrument might have mitigated this weakness.

There was a point at which I would have been completely comfortable with this pronunciation of fifteen carrying on into High School.

But I think it would have been a bit more credible (and, perhaps, its narrator a bit less pretentious) if you had dispensed with the pronunciation "cahl-on-AHD".

Work on pronunciation of adverbs.

Rendering these pronunciations on paper gives Riddley Walker the physical intimacy of throat and mouth working, but there's depth and allusion to it to.

And, for all the certainty with which Cohle delivers his long pronunciations on faith – parroting linguistic theory on religion being a "language virus" – there's something in his voice that betrays a deeper uncertainty.