Your Letters
16:00 UK time, Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Regarding the supposedly phonetic alphabet. "Exit" should not be pronounced "egzit". It drives me wild when the sat-nav does it. I would agsept "eksit" though...
Caroline Brown, Rochester
Interested to see the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ is now stating the Daily Mail as a source of scientific information.
Duncan, Hurstpierpoint
With so many cookery shows on TV I can't help but wonder how many people eat their ready meal TV dinners while watching one of them.
Jan Podsiadly, Croydon
Is it "Spot the Tongue Twister Day" by any chance? If so, I win with: "'Fibbing' fish supper fighter fined", spotted in the most read stories. Here's another one: "Writs risk recedes as Ritz row resolved". Either that or someone has been on the sherry left over from Christmas!
Fi, Gloucestershire
Kate/Katy/Catriona, just consider yourself fortunate to be able to shorten your first name to make your life easier. Have some sympathy for those of us with distinctive last names, who have had to tolerate (or not) widespread mispronunciation, and don't have the option of shortening it - although at school it gave rise to many, many amusing variations. As it's an Anglo Saxon name (from the 7th century), the 'a' is pronounced as an 'o'. Please.
John Whapshott, Bath
Regarding Kate from Bath's comment yesterday, I used to work in a clinic where trying to find people on a database took forever because they always seemed to have the most obscure spelling possible. Kates and Catrionas, etc, were the worst for the sheer variety around a few base names. PS, Benedict can also be spelt as Benedykt.
Paul, Glasgow
If we're going to discuss mispronunciations and misspellings of names, then I should get some sort of award. Despite being only four letters long, and with the bonus of a fada on the "A" (like an acute accent in French), I've run the full gamut of both. A real low point was being called "Ariel".
Aine, London
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