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- From: porta@wam.umd.edu (David Delaney Palmer)
- Subject: Re: Associated Press
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.031413.10062@gagme.chi.il.us>
- Originator: wdp@gagme
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- Sender: wdp@gagme.chi.il.us (Bill Pfeiffer)
- Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 03:14:13 GMT
- Approved: rrb@airwaves.chi.il.us
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- In article <1992Dec17.081508.7696@gagme.chi.il.us>
- J.Theodore.Schuerzinger@dartmouth.edu (J. Theodore Schuerzinger) writes:
- >For those of you on the net involved with the news departments of radio
- >stations, what do you think of the Pronunciation Guide that comes over
- >the AP wire every morning, and the pronunciations given in the stories?
- > I'm specifically referring to foreign names here. I know German and
- >Russian well enough to be able to pronounce the names, and I've seen a
- >number of mistakes on the AP wire.
- >
- >"It's 'bah-REESE', not 'BAW-ris' Yeltsin."
- >
- I have never had aproblem with them although everything I ran
- across I knew how to pronounce without the help of the pronounciation
- guides. Just my two cents worth.
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