| Abstrakt: |
IS IT Rash-ee-da or Ras-ee-dat? I heard both versions of the name of the Tallaght runner, left, over the course of the Olympics, but her mother apparently confirmed that the former is the correct pronunciation of Rhasidat, despite how it's spelled. During the pandemic, we amused ourselves by arguing over whether the Chief Medical Officer was Tony Ho-lohan, as his name was spelled, or Who-lahan, as the newsreaders insisted - they were right, it seems. Was Bryan Dobson correct when he talked about 'nu-q-lar power' rather than 'new-clear'? Am I the pedant for shouting at the radio when a newsreader talks about traffic 'klissions' or 'pleecing' instead of 'policing'? And who, exactly, was the artist 'Bansky' who got several mentions on an RTÉ radio broadcast last week - is he the lesser-known Russian cousin of the graffiti artist Banksy? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
